{"id":73808,"date":"2025-10-11T12:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/73808\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:14:07","slug":"neil-young-to-remove-his-music-from-amazon-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/73808\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Young to Remove His Music From Amazon in Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNeil Young<\/a> has announced plans to remove his music catalog from Amazon<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cForget Amazon and Whole Foods. Forget Facebook,\u201d Young said on\u00a0the Neil Young Archives website<\/a>. \u201cBuy local. Buy direct. Bezos supports this government. It does not support you or me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYoung, long one of the most outspoken figures in rock, has been a critic of President Donald Trump for years. Last month, Young penned a song called \u201cBig Crime\u201d that calls out \u201cfascists\u201d and includes the line, \u201cThere\u2019s big crime in D.C. at the White House.\u201d He also occasionally publishes commentary on politics, the entertainment industry and other global issues on the Neil Young Archives.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe time is here, forget Amazon,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt is easy to buy local. Support your community.
Go to the local store. Don\u2019t go back to the big corporations who 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 them. Don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tYoung previously pulled his from Spotify\u00a0after he claimed the platform was enabling podcasts like Joe Rogan\u2019s to spread misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. Back in August, Young also announced that\u00a0he was leaving Facebook over the company\u2019s AI chatbot. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe ended his message on Wednesday writing: \u201c[Amazon] needs you to buy from them. Don\u2019t. They shut down our government your income your safety your family\u2019s health security. Take America Back together, stop buying from the big corporations support local business. Do the right thing. Show who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt remains unclear whether Young is removing his digital music library from Amazon Music or if he is also enforcing removal of products from Amazon. <\/p>\n

\n\tRepresentatives of Amazon Music and Neil Young did not immediately return Variety\u2018s requests for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neil Young has announced plans to remove his music catalog from Amazon. In an effort to encourage his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3468,321,93,61,60,3916,20122],"class_list":["post-73808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-amazon","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-neil-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}