In an interview with Melody Maker in 1985, Neil Young backed Reagan's gun control policies and said of AIDS, "You go to a supermarket and you see a faggot behind the fuckin' cast register, you don't want him to handle your potatoes."
It is weird that he said that. It is weird that liberals who act like they would rather die than work a lower class job behave like they are "scared" of dying of HIV or anything else.
He also sold half the rights to his music to a group that's partnered with Blackrock. The company much criticized by people on the left like Elizabeth Warrne for a horrific environmental record and shut being generally evil fucks.
Is he an idealist, or just an opportunistic dickhead? He's said he never liked Spotify to begin with because of their sound quality.
I remember when Eric Clapton said some things critical of the Covid response in the UK and they started digging up terrible things he said over forty years ago. Not happening with old Neil.
Update: Now he's telling people to go to Amazon for their music. Really principled leftist. They have people much further to the right on their site than Rogan.
I mean, I buy things from Amazon and made by companies like Apple myself, it can be hard to avoid them. I'm not posturing like I'm making some big sacrifice or moral stand in any way either.
The whole thing is a conspiracy by Amazon and Apple to try and crush Spotify so people will be forced to pay for iTunes or Amazon music. Remember, you can listen to Spotify for free which doesn't make the cunts like Neil Young happy because they want to fuck their fans out of every dime they can.