One week after President Trump recklessly escalated his threat to take over Greenland, Neil Young is gifting the country’s residents free access to his entire music catalog. In a letter addressed to “our Friends in Greenland,” the recently-minted American citizen graciously offers Greenlanders a NeilYoungArchives.com subscription in the hope of easing “some of the unwarranted stress…you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government.”
Young has long been critical of President Trump and his allies. On January 23, Young doubled down on his decision to pull his music from Amazon’s streaming service, due to owner Jeff Bezos’ continued backing of Trump. “The president’s international policies and his support of ICE make it impossible for me to ignore [Bezos’] actions,” Young wrote in a statement. “If you feel as I do, I strongly recommend that you do not use Amazon. There are many ways to avoid Amazon and support individual Americans and American companies that supply the same products. I have done that with my music and people who are looking can find it in a lot of other places.”
In the Greenland letter, Young says he hopes his gift of free music will make other organizations “follow in the spirit of our example.” Greenalnd residents can head to NeilYoungArchives.com/Greenland to sign up.
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