In his original post published after Spotify announced it was pulling his music, Young wrote, “Spotify has recently become a very damaging force via its public misinformation and lies about COVID. However, all of the services he mentions have launched high-quality audio options in the past few years Spotify said it would debut such a plan last year but earlier this month said it is d elayed indefinitely. “I don’t need my music to be devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution” he wrote in a Facebook post at the time. Those comments revive an argument that Young, who is famously particular about sound quality, made in 2015, when he removed his catalog from all major streaming services due to what he deemed inadequate sound quality. “Real sound is available there… You just have to leave Spotify and go to a place that truly cares about music quality.” “Switch to one of the alternatives, companies that support the arts,” Young adds. Spotify plays the artists’s music at 5% of its quality and charges you like it was the real thing.” If you support Spotify, you are destroying an art form. Young then condemned Spotify for cutting the quality of the music it streams, adding, “Amazon, Apple Music and Qobuz deliver up to 100% of the music today and it sounds a lot better than the shitty, degraded and neutered sound of Spotify.

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