Neil Young Pulls Music From Amazon: “Bezos Supports This Government”

Neil Young, who recently wrote and recorded the anti-Trump song “Big Crime,” says he intends to pull his music from Amazon and encourages fans to “shop local.”

In a post on his Archives website, Young writes: “Forget Amazon. Soon my music will not be there.” And, referring to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, “Buy local. Buy direct. Bezos supports this government. It does not support you or me.”

“It is easy to buy local,” Young writes in a lengthy message that also slams Whole Foods and Facebook. “Support your community. Go to the local store. Don’t 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’t.”

Longtime political activist Young, whose “Big Crime” includes the lyrics, “Don’t want soldiers walking on our streets/Got big crime in DC at the White House,” ends his website post with this: “They shut down our government your income your safety your family’s health security. Take America Back together, stop buying from the big corporations support local business. Do the right thing. Show who you are.”

Young famously withdrew his songs from Spotify in 2022 for a couple of years to protest what he said was misinformation being spread about Covid vaccines by podcaster Joe Rogan. He shut down his Facebook page in August this year due to parent company Meta’s AI policies.