Thread 127171506

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard just took off all of their music on Spotify, in retaliation to the CEO investing in AI drone tech. What other artist will follow?

Earth shatteringly based. Fuck Spotify, not even for the drone shit, but just for being an evil force in music and culture.

>>127171506 (OP)
Not a fan of Wizard Gizzard but based nonetheless.

>>127171506 (OP)
ok it's getting a little more serious, now let's see if one of the top 4,000 acts on Spotify does something

NOOOOOO CURRENT THING BAD GIVE ME UPBOATS REDDIT I AM A GOOD GOY VACCINATED CATTLE!!!!

>>127171506 (OP)
The fuck is this toothless 'do better' shit? What can they do to negate the harm already done?

Hitler shouldn't have killed himself. He should have simply done better after killing 60 gorillion jews

>>127171506 (OP)
how rock and roll of them. very masculine, too.

Reddit band

>>127172442
AI is being pushed by the same corporations who pushed the vaccine in the early 2020s. Only reason the former appeals to right wingers is because the elites realized zoomers are shifting right and adjusted accordingly

>>127171506 (OP)
I don't care about this gimmicky band, but hopefully more bands follow suit and will influence more people to have less soulless ways of enjoying music than just jumping on slopify. never mind buying physical copies, even just downloading and building a digital library with your preferred sounding versions of your favorite albums with custom artwork at least shows that you aren't just a filthy casual of a music "fan."

Their cause is noble and all but honest fuck this.

All this means is I’m not gonna listen to gizz anymore. I’m not gonna change my platform for a single artist.

When Neil Young pulled this shit I just stopped listening to Neil Young, which honestly sucked, but like seriously as if Gizz is big enough to change anything Spotify does.

Downvote me all you want but this just makes my life more of a pain in the ass. They’re hurting Spotify users more than Spotify

>>127172574
nah the anti-AI people are the exact same woke twitter mob 'I fucking love science get vaccinated, climate change' types.

>>127172633
They’re hurting THEMSELVES with this bullshit too. Their fanbase has been growing faster recently than ever before, and this immediately blocks everyone who uses Spotify from getting into them

>>127172625
>your preferred sounding versions of your favorite albums with custom artwork
tf are you waffling about, this is about AI military technology

>>127172633
The point is that you shouldn't be using Spotify. If you gave a shit about music in the first place, instead of just yourself, then you would already realize this.

Look I really do get it, Spotify sucks. But what does this achieve? Even if all the Gizz fans cancel their subscriptions and move elsewhere it won’t affect Spotify one bit. I know I sound spoiled, but I’ve put years into making playlists and I enjoy looking up my stats on stats.fm.

On a practical level it really is going to make things difficult for me and many others too. Yes I love my playlists and stats but really I’d be happy to move to another platform. Problem is I’m on a family plan. My choices are cancel and also make my Mum, Dad, fiancée and friend all lost their access too or pay for two subscriptions which to be honest I can’t really afford right now.

On top of this I’m getting married in 6 weeks. Many Gizz songs were in our playlists and now we can’t use them. Our venue staff play our music by sharing our Spotify playlists to them, we have no choice in using another platform.

I love Gizz and their stance on politics, as much as this annoys me I still think it’s cool they’re willing to do harsh things like this, but really this only hurts the fans. For some it won’t be a big deal, cancel one subscription, start another. But for many others, like myself, it’s not so simple.

>>127172633
>Their cause is noble.
Can you explain why AI drone tech is bad? This is a given in your argument when it's illogical to begin with.

>>127172674
AI military technology is literally being used by Israel on Palestine right now and has been for at least a few months, probably much longer. More political action in countries like France. Zohran Mamdani (mayoral candidate for New York City) said that if he becomes Mayor and Netanyahu enters NYC that he would arrest him. There is an international arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

>>127172633
>>127172660
>Reddit spacing

>>127172633
Neil Young went back to Spotify basically saying "leaving Spotify is career suicide"

>>127172658
why?

>>127172641
Nigger, did you even read the post? It's not a flex to say you're even more gullible than woke twitter faggots.

>>127172633
Okay, but why stick with a platform that keeps getting abandoned by artists you enjoy listening to. How does using Spotify benefit you in any way over any other streaming platform?
Relying on streaming platforms is pire faggotryn o begin with, but you already lost that battle.

>>127172649
>Their fanbase has been growing faster recently than ever before
no they peaked two years ago

>>127172442
>NOOO DON'T STAND FOR ANYTHING EVER
worm

>>127172855
AI technology is inevitable, and proles are getting uppity thinking they can tell billionaires what to do.

>>127171506 (OP)
good move

no artist should have to swallow the bad deal and stench when there are better routes to profit and artistic integrity

>streambabbies suffer
>downloadchuds feel nothing

This shit is all just an Apple music psyop

If Young do this too he's actually a spineless coward who stands for nothing.

>>127172442
Kill yourself Pablo

>>127172945
This

>>127171506 (OP)
we do not care

>>127172633
This is why physical media mogs a subscription to one of these music platforms. I have like 10 king gizzard albums on CD + maybe 10 of their live albums on CD. This change literally doesn't affect me whatsoever

>>127172685
>AI military technology is literally being used by Israel on Palestine right now and has been for at least a few months

don't care, I live in America not a warzone retard

>inb4 your tax dollars are going towards Israel

don't care, not my problem

People who oppose AI military technology merely want the West to lose a future military confrontation with China. If it gives us an edge, use it the fuck away!

Fuck these Aussie hippie retards. I hope their move fails totally and they come back to the platform with their tails between their legs.

>>127172711
the silence... it speaks volumes...

>>127171506 (OP)
this is performative and stupid

apple, google and amazon all invest way more into military technology, and are actual military contractors that work for the US government. on top of all the OTHER morally reprehensible shit they do

and we're supposed to act like this is better? just because that stuff isn't in the news right now?
fuck that

>>127171506 (OP)
>band is rich enough that they can afford to go without streaming revenue from spotify for a while, or for forever
wow, such a bold move for sure

>>127171506 (OP)
didn't they make an entire album with mild high club? as well as a remix album with like a bunch of people?
I'm sure they'll all be so happy without an entire platform's worth of royalties from those

>>127171506 (OP)
Removing yourself from streaming services because of moral reasons is utterly retarded
First of all you'd just kneecap your growth back to the early 2000s where you'd need to splurge in payola airtime and PR junkets
Second of all none of the big streaming services are morally good at all Spotify may be the big dog but the rest of the streaming players have their own baggage as well
>Apple
KGLW deeply cares about consumerism yet they still have music there
>Google (Youtube Music)
Dropped the "Do not be Evil" mantra and has DOD contracts
>Amazon (Wait people use this?)
Do I even need to begin? I'm pretty sure the company with the wagie cagie patent has our best interest in minds
>Deezer
Bankrolled by a Russian oligarch
>Tidal
Jack Dorsey ain't squeaky clean either
>Bandcamp
Indirectly owned by Tencent via Epic Games
Epic Games buying itch.io led to the fiasco that indie games have today
>Traditional Distribution channels (Major labels)
kek lmao even

What is wrong with AI anyways? lol i dont get it

>>127175516
>Bandcamp
>Indirectly owned by Tencent via Epic Games
Wrong. They sold it already.

>>127175593
Nothing, its' just "Current thing bad". zoomers love to virtue signal on twitter

>>127175654
Ai is gonna take over and kill us all retard

>>127172685
That smelly brown cringe theatre kid won’t do shit.

>>127175593
In KGLW's defense there's no streaming platform that has a worse botting problem than spotify
It's filled to the brim with AI playlists and if you look at KGLW's profile there you'd see those playlists

>>127172633
Its probably done either
A) to appease rabid fanbase members starting to make problems and blaming the artist for making money for spotify to do perceived evil things with
B) in the hopes that enough artists go along to create an actual problem for spotify
Anyway an artist like gizzard probably makes their money in ticket sales and all their fans begging to spend 40 bucks on every special color vinyl of each new album they slapped together the past few weeks, i dont think the pittance spotify was giving them comes close

>>127175516
yeah but all those things aren't in the news right now therefore people aren't going to call out king gizzard for tangentially supporting it

>>127171506 (OP)
Kek if your music isn't on Spotify I will just pirate it instead.
Artists are fucking entitled spoiled crybabies. I won't pay shit for your music. Even your merch I will pirate.

>>127172773
>Relying on streaming platforms is pire faggotryn o begin with, but you already lost that battle.
God forbid people wanting convenience, right?

>>127171506 (OP)
shut the fuck up and play the songs

>>127171506 (OP)
Haven't enjoyed their new music in years.
Thought their political sperging was lame since 2020 when they first got louder about it.
Don't even care about this issue.
This is still a based move on their part because fuck streaming, fuck spotify.
>>127172641
>nah the anti-AI people are the exact same woke twitter mob 'I fucking love science get vaccinated, climate change' types.
Yeah man, fuck that lefty Tucker Carlson.

>>127175654
Relying on AI leads to literal retardation.

>>127176475
>Yeah man, fuck that lefty Tucker Carlson.

National-socialism is a left-wing philosophy and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

>>127174317
you're also a 45yo virgin though

>Noooo we can't have robots fight wars
>Actual people have to get shot and blown up instead
>I mean, not us, obviously, but other people

>>127177614
It means countries that can't afford to build an army of skynet robots are going to get their guys blown up instead, leading to more power being consolidated into an increasingly small group of wealthy capitalists

in his defense Ek said it's for defending Evropa which is trailing way behind the US in that regard

in his defense Ek said it's to defend Evropa which is trailing way behind the US in that regard

>>127172660
>he hired venue staff so fucking retarded they can't connect a speaker to bluetooth or AUX
Suffer, normgroid

>>127171506 (OP)
>tranny fag supporting group of fags taking their music away from a gay ass music platform

Oh no! What shall I do!?!?! Lmao

>>127177855
they literally call this shit helsing?

>>127178003
LOL

>>127172685
I don't give a fuck. Israel could drop an atomic bomb on Gaza for all I care. Not my problem.

>>127171506 (OP)
HAIL KING GIZZ! THE RIGHT CHOICE!

>>127178355
>I'm a psychopath
ok

>>127178777
>noooo you have to care about something happening 10000 miles away from you! silence is violence!

>>127171506 (OP)
ts is finna become a problem when an artist i actually consider worthwhile in my current music listening habit takes tehir shit off

i hate zoomers so much please just learn to steal things

>>127179252
i hate you all so much, learn to pay for things and stop killing music

>>127179334
no. stealing music is a rite of passage for young people and has been since music media has been sold. they should continue to do it and in the process destroy the streaming model so people start paying meaningful amounts for music they actually care about.

>>127179404
YES. OBEY THE LAW AND FOLLOW THE RULES LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.

>>127172633
>Downvote me all you want but this just makes my life more of a pain in the ass.
how about you buy their music, digitally or physically, like youre supposed to you fucking poor freeloader

>>127179404
why would people start paying if they're already stealing

>>127179492
because buying music means you can hold it
streamed and downloaded music = not real music

>never listened to gizzard wizzard
>don't fucking care

its crazy that some people here will still defend spotify

>>127179492
Because they usually reach a point in life where they can afford to support an artist's work.
Pirated all throughout my teen years, now I buy releases from artists I like.

>>127171506 (OP)
I really don't care for that band. I'm huge into metal, and their two thrash releases were underwhelming to say the least.

>>127179334
>he buys music
I think you are a retarded faggot

>>127180119
>he kills music
I think you're the real retard for posting on this board if you hate music so much. Kill yourself soonish, there's a good lil bish.

>>127179565
Artists are entitled scums, they should be thankful if people are listening to their shit music. If they wanted to make money they should have become lawyers or something. I will just soulseek your music if it's not on Spotify, I won't pay you a dime.

>>127180136
>>127180131

>>127180131
This never gets old.
I bet you are proud of your funko collection.

>>127180152
I'm proud of the music I worked and paid for yeah. Maybe you should get a job and stop being such an empty leech. I bet you are proud of your piss bottle collection.

>>127180169
How many funkos you've got? Lmao

>>127180174
How many piss bottle shave you got? Do you masturbate in the same room while smelling them?

>>127180174
be a real man and get a job mate, stop killing music

>>127180178
Well I hope the artists like to get paid in pissbottles because thats the closest thing to payment they will receive from me. Keep seething, faglord

>>127171506 (OP)
I'm a huge fan of KG's music but this feels a lot like an uninformed kneejerk reaction to seeing a headline, or probably worse, a bunch of sycophants screeching about it in some internet echochamber. Like others have mentioned a lot of big tech companies invest in or straight up work in military tech already, probably using AI at this point too. If we stopped developing AI stuff for wartime that's not gonna make hostile nations suddenly stop working on it. This whole thing screams virtue signalling but it might get me to quit using Spotify anyways so I don't have to rely on streaming platforms that can revoke access to my files.

>>127180187
Nope, I will pay for convenience and pirate things I can't find on streaming services.
You can keep your Funko Pop collection.
>"nooooo stop killing music"
It's just Napster all over again. You people are faggots.

>king reddit and the reddit reddit
who cares

>STOP KILLING MUSIC
>WHAT? DO YOU WANT CONVENIENCE? WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO MUSIC WHILE YOU ARE DOING YOUR GROCERIES OR GOING FOR A WALK?
>NO YOU HAVE TO PAY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN ~LE VINYL AND ~LE CDs AND ONLY LISTEN TO THEM WHEN YOU ARRIVE HOME YOU CHUD LIKE WE USED TO DO IN THE 70s (I was actually born in 2008)

>>127179504
real music, if we're getting into all that, is performed live in the moment by musicians, not frozen in place and endlessly replayed from a disc/tape/file

>>127177665

You want other countries to be RIVALS to the U.S. military, Fantano?

I can show you in one map why that's a bad idea:

https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/average-iq-by-country

Christ, socialists are the worst fucking people.

>>127171506 (OP)
So is this boycott thing gonna snowball? You had Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu and now these guys. I wonder if it coule reach a point where the Spotify administration gives a shit

>>127172633
>When Neil Young pulled this shit I just stopped listening to Neil Young
How to tell you are a digital native without saying you are a digital native.

>>127174667
>apple, google and amazon all invest way more into military technology, and are actual military contractors that work for the US government.

source?

>>127171506 (OP)
Why would anyone even use spotify? Use youtube and mp3 downloader sites as a normal person for fucks sake

>>127181130
normal people use spotify. youtube-to-mp3 is for ghetto folk and thirdworlders

>>127181426
>ghetto folk and thirdworlders
Those outnumber the "normal" people worldwide you know

>>127181426
>normal people use Spotify

Incorrect. Retards who don’t pirate/steal music and don’t know any different use Spotify.

>>127180212
>I'm a huge fan of KG's music

Stop reading there.

>>127172633
It’s 2025, and Spotify still does not even have lossless audio streaming. Why would you use that garbage anyways when Tidal, Apple Music, or Qobuz are the same price and far better? And don’t give me the “but my playlis-“ you can migrate your library from any streaming platform to any other platform these days brother. Just switch to anything else, Spotify is and has been the worst of the big platforms for years

>>127181562
they are brown and so are you
>>127181642
cope

>>127182706
i buy spotify to support the exclusive podcasts
i don't use it to listen to music, only the joe rogan experience

>>127172633
>spotify users

spotify is using you way more than you are using it. all of your data is theirs whether you pay for their service or not.

If jizz wizard can redpill their fanbase at least a little bit into not being slaves to tyrants then there may be hope for humanity after all.