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Thursday, October 09, 2025

Neil Young vs. Amazon: Neil Young To Withdraw Music from Amazon.com

Neil Young vs. Amazon
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Neil Young has announced that he will withdraw his music catalog from Amazon Music.

Folks may recall back in 2022 when Neil Young had his music catalog removed from Spotify.

In a statement on Neil Young Archives, Neil Young announced that his music will soon no longer be available on the platform. In the message, published on October 8, 2025, he urged people to stop shopping at Amazon and its US supermarket chain Whole Foods: 
"FORGET AMAZON AND WHOLE FOODS. 
Stop buying from big corporations."
Instead, people should "buy local" and "buy direct." Consumers should support their community and visit local businesses. The goal is to "Take America Back" by doing the right thing and supporting local businesses.

Neil goes on to criticize big corporations for "selling out America" accusing corporations of crippling the US government, endangering people's incomes, undermining personal safety, and jeopardizing families' healthcare. 



Neil Young specifically mentions Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who supports the Trump administration. He argues that America is at the beginning of an "age of corporate control." Everyone must therefore give up something to save the country. Therefore, Neil Young concludes: 
"Soon, my music will no longer be available there."
Neil Young has had a long and tangled relationship with digital music vendors such as Amazon. Much of the struggle is detailed in the book "To Feel the Music" by Neil Young and Phil Baker.

More on Neil Young and Amazon Music @ Neil Young Speaks On Amazon Music HD

Also, see more on supporting local farmers market @ Forty Days and Forty Nights and Forty Years of Farm Aid.  Also, see video of Neil Young at Farm Aid Press Conference where he calls for a "conscience tax" on billionaires (@ link below).


"We need a "Conscience Tax" on billionaires"
Neil Young at 2025 Farm Aid Press Conference
(see video at bottom of @ link above)

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25 Comments:

At 10/09/2025 01:27:00 PM, Blogger herbsworld said...

After seeing the Coastal movie on the big screen , I sought out the soundtrack. Only to find Neil pulled the release to correct issues. Then I noticed it was available as a hi res d/l in the NY d/l store. But no vinyl? Odd, but the Vinyl was available on Amazon so i snagged it. Looked like an “official” release but sound was what I can only describe as intermittent “digitized skipping”. And not on all songs. So I reached out to NYA cust support. They said a few of the pulled releases made there way to Amazon. They graciously provided me with a d/l link. They rock @ NYA 😎
Caveat Emptor.

 
At 10/09/2025 01:41:00 PM, Blogger herbsworld said...

Fuk Amazon. Fuk Hole Foods. Fuk Bezos. Fuk T Rump.

 
At 10/09/2025 04:27:00 PM, Blogger Richie Cruz said...

Wasn't Blackstone a large corporation?

 
At 10/09/2025 05:11:00 PM, Blogger herbsworld said...

Isn’t T Rump the President of the U.S. ?
TODAY?
Try and stay tuned in…

 
At 10/09/2025 07:45:00 PM, Blogger Richie Cruz said...

Today, tomorrow, the next day, the day after that, and every day for the next 3 years....and maybe more?

Don't let it bring you down.

 
At 10/09/2025 11:59:00 PM, Blogger Knowledge Nomad said...

Neil's never been particularly consistent when it comes to Amazon. I remember not that long ago how he was praising the company for having hi-res streaming, and I was like, really, that's enough for you? That said, I don't expect consistency in anyone. It's an impossible standard. I just hope most of us are at least trying to do right by each other.

 
At 10/10/2025 10:05:00 AM, Blogger thrasher said...

Support Farmers Markets!
+ use cash

 
At 10/10/2025 02:11:00 PM, Blogger Abner Snopes said...

There are many people who cannot "buy local" because there is nothing to buy. There are many food deserts in the US, especially now in rural areas. The farmers market world is most generally for white middle-upper middle class people. It is a good sentiment and probably good for many people but we will need mass production of food and this includes corporations.

 
At 10/10/2025 05:46:00 PM, Blogger herbsworld said...

Maybe more? What flavor was that koolade? (Red no doubt). And yes, that is a flavor. According to RFK jr.

 
At 10/10/2025 07:37:00 PM, Blogger wsanjose01 said...

You think w name like Prime you may get movies w out minutes long commercials. You're not Prime enough for that . I have the great war of Squirrel 🐿️ going on. I need that 2 day. Even in Holbrook Rte 66

 
At 10/11/2025 03:06:00 AM, Blogger thrasher said...

Ok, thanks Abner.

Support farm-to-table dinners. Buy a meat box or a CSA (community supported agriculture) share.

Use farms as venues for weddings, baby showers, or birthday parties.

There are quite a few practical, direct actions.

 
At 10/11/2025 10:26:00 AM, Blogger Alan said...

There will be a gigantic US protest nationwide, & worldwide, on Saturday Oct 18!
Dan & I will be involved and present. Even Red state Idaho has been seeing enormous turnout for protests.

If you value Democracy and the protection of the Constitution, you should go to the protests and add to their numbers. We need to force Democracy on the US. The level of corruption Trump places in the Justice Dept and elsewhere is unprecedented. We need to push this mean moron out. His tantrums of destruction are erasing the American Dream as we watch. “Get offa that couch, turn off your MTV.”

Since evil King Dumbass has put terror in the hearts of immigrants, they have self-deported (over a million) to the extent that the farms are struggling with no workers to pick the crops, process the food, etc.

Lazy white people and others will not work hard in the fields for very-little-money. So, food will be scarce and prices will jump.

Trump says he loves Capitalism as he dismantles it. And it is hard to do much without food.

Yes, the Empire is crumbling. It matters not to me that Neil Young is taking his music back from Amazon.

Quality issues from Coastal? Screaming Trees had a similar issue with LP production. The band re-released their first album “Clairvoyance” and some people got a crappy / dirty side of vinyl.

To Hell with DT and his krappy koolade krew (KKK). Rise up. Millions in the streets can steer us to a new Gov’t. Bring it on.

Your Brother Alan in Seattle

 
At 10/11/2025 10:32:00 AM, Blogger Alan said...

Oct 18, 2025, #NoKings
Be there or you can’t say much about resistance. It’s 1939: What would you do? Lemmings put on brown shirts and held load the prisoners onto trains for the genocide.

Now the shoe is on the other foot: our tax money is used by both parties for Genocide in Gaza. Did Trump really abandon his idea of a Middle East Riviera built on the rubble of Gaza? I doubt it.

Trump will fly into a rage after he fails to win a Nobel Prize.

Your Brother Alan in Seattle

 
At 10/11/2025 12:16:00 PM, Blogger Abner Snopes said...

Thrasher, yes! In Iowa, small producers of many crops are increasing their income every year! We are all for the same thing, just many difficulties we need to address!

 
At 10/11/2025 12:59:00 PM, Blogger Dan Swan said...

Amazon, Meta, X, FoxNews, and all the others financing this authoritarian regime are complicit. But the real butchers are in the government doing their bidding. So we all need to focus on the government rather than boycotting industries. We all need to get out in the streets and exercise our first amendment rights, and fearlessly protest peacefully. We only need 3.5 percent of the population to stand up strong against this tyrannical regime to take it down. We’ve already waited too long to wake up. So get out there on October 18th and let your voice be heard…..we outnumber them!!

Peace to all, and Power to the People 🙏

 
At 10/11/2025 05:16:00 PM, Blogger thrasher said...

Listen guys, let us lay our reality down. We've gone to school and lived in Washington DC since late 70s.

We've been inside of every House Building... Rayburn, Cannon, etc
Every Senate Building Hart, Russell, etc lobbying our eleceted/selected representatives.

Protested at White House, Pentagon and most agencies... EPA, Interior, Agricultural. State, etc

If you really think people on the streets matters, go for it. That's exactly what they want. Your time occupied by meaningless sign waving, chanting, etc

But you trying to grow your own food on 10x10 plot?

That scares the crap out of the PTB.

Bartering, trading in the underground economy. Generating your own energy with micro-Hydro, biomass, etc. This is Corporate fear. Our independence.

Break free. That's the most radical act.

We see a lot of traditional actions that play it safe. No risk. Easy stuff.

We're beyond this. Stop wasting time and act locally. Super local. Stop supporting corporations. It's a lot easier than you've been lied to about.

You want to make a difference? GET off the grid, disconnect.

That's a better use of time.

 
At 10/11/2025 11:24:00 PM, Blogger herbsworld said...

Dan, Alan & Everyone else: I know we are getting to “Them”. You can tell by the way they are calling No Kings an Anti American Rally. That message maybe true in other countries, even the one’s with monarchs, but the World is watching & knows the truth. This is an Anti Trump Rally.
I am sick to my core about all the divisions, hatred and vindictiveness. The lies. We are winning.
The turnout has grown with each protest fueled by all the daily nonsense led by T Rump & his flunky stooges. There will be pain and lots of it to come, but it’s always darkest before the dawn.
Stay safe. Stay strong.

 
At 10/11/2025 11:32:00 PM, Blogger herbsworld said...

3.5% of the Total population is what it takes to turn the tide and toss the regime. We are on the precipice of Big Change.

 
At 10/12/2025 12:13:00 PM, Blogger Dionys said...

Many Americans (and other humans elsewhere)
… understand that their society overstretched the supply lines
… reach out to their neighbours, no matter what color of skin they have, where they come from or whom they love
… start moving into smaller houses or apartments
… try to increase communal resilience and public wealth as opposed to supersize their
swimming pools, golf clubs or private caribbean islands
… use bicycles instead of SUVs and other recreational tanks to do their daily errands
… begin installing solar panels to lessen dependency on conventional electricity based on burning fossil fuel
… came to question the habit that every grocery item has to be wrapped in three layers of plastic
… do not believe that “best before” translates as “absolutely lethal after”
… grow a vegetable garden to work towards food sovereignty
… learn how to cook their meals themselves in order to acquire some taste of their own as opposed to standardized tastes produced by the food industry
… don’t have a problem with eating less meat
… don’t buy the idea that 500 different GMO yoghurts and chlorine chicken make for a consumer paradise
… think twice before they book a transcontinental or even intercontinental flight to see a concert by their favourite rock star
… remember the idea that an education that deserves being called education is rather about values than about bought and paid for knowhow to make even more money
… believe that illness, handicap and old age are not an individuals fault and therefore conclude that no individual should not fall victim to the capitalist pseudo-puritan darwinists
… that nature is more than a resource or a pretty landscape for the holidays
… believe that a democratic government as such is as imperfect as any human undertaking but they know they can’t do without one
… that acting on behalf of themselves, the common good, and a liveable future of their descendants instead of lining the White House outhouse with gold, is an expression of free speech
… are taking to the streets because they support some of the ideas above while their government is running away with their country

So Alan, Dan and Thrasher are all on the right track, I believe and their ideas do not exclude each other.

Maybe you can check some of the ideas on this list. If you can’t, maybe you should ask yourself whether you overstayed your welcome on this planet?

 
At 10/12/2025 12:32:00 PM, Blogger Richie Cruz said...

So basically, if you don't follow your ideal way of living, you don't deserve to live? Got it.

Some might say that way of thinking is almost what might be called fascism....

 
At 10/12/2025 12:57:00 PM, Blogger Dionys said...

Ah, I understand you can't check some of these ideas? That's a pity... But maybe you can come up with better ones? What's wrong with growing a garden? Why is it difficult to accept that nature also is something else beyond recreational and resource value? Why is criticising the ostentatious makeover of the White House toilets fascist? Do you really need 500 different GMO yoghurts? Were you ever taught that beyond grocery prices there is something called values? And if so, do you know where one can buy them?
There's but one word in your comment that rings some truth: "ideal". "Ideal" originally meant that a human being follows some ideas in his or her daily life. Actually we all do. I did not propose that my ideas are the only ones, I did not propose that others who don't subscribe to any of this on my list don't deserve to live. That's your distorted reading. But yes, I believe eventually those who overstay their welcome on this planet will go the way of the dodo and the dinos.

 
At 10/12/2025 02:03:00 PM, Blogger Alan said...

I agree with a lot of what you said. I like the suggestions you made, except the part about “sign waving being waste of time” I could not disagree more with that.

Although the frog brigade is doing a great job of de-escalating ICE and erasing their excuses.

Americans are only waking up to participation in Government even past elections. The communal vibes of the peaceful protests fill people with hope.

Women’s rights, & those of diverse people are being erased. It’s fine to be Racist. This is NOT OK with me.

We are fighting Racism, Fascism, Tiny-minded attacks on science, and standing up for human decency.

Those of us who are protesting are doing the job for the rest. In reality, we need all hands on deck.

If we do as the Europeans do, millions in the streets can really make a difference. Especially if it’s day after day!

The people must demand free speech and the right to protest. Civil rights are being taken away, usually from non whites.

I care about all of the citizens & the inhuman treatment of immigrants is unacceptable! We need workers in the US, especially in the jobs that are now vacant because Trump chased out the workers. They should be paid a lot more, and given free health care if they will work in our country. All of the citizens should have total health care coverage.

Easier to ignore for the white guys. If you own land, you can do a lot more of what you want to do, like grow crops.

I do like the list Dionys made.

Get out and Protest on October 18th while protest is still legal. This is 1939… what would you do to stop it?

Our basic Human Rights and American Rights here in the US are being stripped and threatened. The Police State Fascists are trying to provoke a reaction.

I say, keep it peaceful but definitely protest! Soon we may not be allowed to protest, and that is “In-American!”

Your Brother Alan in Seattle

 
At 10/12/2025 02:09:00 PM, Blogger Alan said...

Edited: should read:

I say, keep it peaceful but definitely protest! Soon we may not be allowed to protest, and that is “UN-American!” UnAmerican.

The King is an Idiot. He is also a monster! Stand now or face the consequences of your in-action!

Your Brother Alan in Seattle

 
At 10/12/2025 05:39:00 PM, Blogger Jerôme said...

Stop saying bullshit benny hill

 
At 10/12/2025 08:17:00 PM, Blogger wsanjose01 said...

Vance an especially brazen liar on ABC today. But he don't know only DJ gets away with that. Dj sparkles eyes not you.

 

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