“We have done a lot of different things over the years, but sometimes you just forget that you have free will – you can do whatever you want in these spaces,” says frontman and de facto bandleader Stu Mackenzie over the phone in September. “I don’t particularly want to try to start a movement or something like that – I’m happy if other people join. But for us, it was a decision about our music and a decision about what we think is right and what we think is not right. [We decided] we’re just gonna walk and deal with consequences later.”

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.

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.

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

Wait that’s awesome, didn’t know that!