“Forget Amazon and Whole Foods. Forget Facebook,” Neil Young said on the Neil Young Archives website.
“Buy local. Buy direct. Bezos supports this government, and it does not support you or me.”
In a post on his website that indirectly references the Trump administration, the singer said, “soon my music will not be” on the streaming service.
Neil Young has also announced plans to remove his music catalog from Amazon in an effort to encourage his listeners to shop local, Young called out the corporation in a post published to his website on Oct. 8.
Blues fans outside the famed Rhythm Room in Phoenix last week applauded Young’s decision.
“Right on, glad to hear that—hey, Neil has always stood up for the little guy and he’s the rebel and antiestablishment rocker he’s always been—that’s why we love him,” said 64-year-old Leon Stewart a self-described “hardcore” Neil Young fan when asked about Young’s decision to remove his music from Amazon over Jeff Bezo’s support of the current administration.
Northeast Valley News asked people outside the Rhythm Room club in Phoenix their thoughts on Young’s decision to speak out publicly against the Trump administration and the big corporations that support it.
“Hey, he’s got the fucking right to do it, at least for now, (laughing) to say and do whatever he wants—and I feel him, we are not in a good place in America,” said Mellie Ashton a long-time fan of the “beloved” Neil Young.
“I’m trying my best not to buy corporate anything and go local and direct from the people who make the goods…and Neil is right, we need to start consuming smarter, in ways that serve people not corporations.”
Young didn’t specify according to Rolling Stone if he would simply remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service, (as he has done in the past with Spotify) or if he would strip all Young-related items including his physical albums from Amazon.
“It’s easy to buy local. Support your community. Go to the local story. Don’t go back to big corporations that have sold out America. We all have to give up something to save America from the Corporate Control Age, it is entering. They need you to buy from then. Don’t,” Young said in his Oct.8 post.
