King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/20/king-gizzard-lizard-wizard-stu-mackenzie-interview-leaving-spotify-free-musicOpen linkView original on slrpnk.net
AFAIK those streaming music platforms are mostly a way for the artists to advertise themselves and their concerts/tours, because revenue from streaming music is minuscule. If so, this decision makes a lot of sense, even beyond being the morally correct one - I haven't heard of them before, and now I've listened to their latest album and kinda want a concert ticket.
They released Polygondwanaland for free ages ago and it's a banger, if you want to check out more of their stuff.
I just realized that's a play on the ancient supercontinent gondwana. I guess I always misread it as wonderland. Neat.
Given us an insane amount of albums over the years and now doing this. Been following them since the second album and they've been nothing but impressive on multiple fronts
They don't make music I enjoy yet I have been a huge fan of them for years. The artists themselves are extremely cool
Yeah, I wish they did more albums like Nonagon. There have been a lot of albums that I've tried out and didn't like a single song.
Wait that's awesome, didn't know that!
All of their music is "name your price" and DRM-free on Bandcamp
I recently left Spotify for Tidal (Qobuz didn’t do it for me), dropped PIA for another VPN, Installed Linux Mint instead of Windows, and I was already out of the video streaming services.
If only I could drop this gmail account I would truly be free.
I'm also now on Linux since Microsoft started shoehorning chatbots into Windows!
Gmail is a real pain to get rid off. That and WhatsApp are the two hardest ones to break.