14/12/2025
ICYMI - We’ve pulled all music by The Prizefighters off of Spotify.
To start, let’s acknowledge that of course there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Any digital platform The Prizefighters exist on is compromised in countless ways. You’re reading this message on some website owned by a sociopath who couldn’t give two f***s about you beyond the data they can extract. You’ll follow a link to another website where each stream or video play is nothing but an advertising play that drops into the bucket of a venture capital firm hellbent on dismantling the cultural and communal gains of millenia. And we’re still in that game, for now.
But we’ve made the decision to take a small amount of power back from the most egregious violator. Everyone already knows about how sh*tty Spotify is for paying artists. And while we’d love to get paid fairly for our art, our decision isn’t a financial one. It’s a moral one.
It’s not just the welcoming of ICE advertising (get in the right YouTube algorithm and you’ll find them there, too). It’s not just the comic villainy of Daniel Ek as he uses his massive profits to fund AI weaponry development. It’s not just the terms of service that require your music to be fed to AI learning modules to better generate human-less entertainment. It’s not just sharing a platform with Joe Rogan. It’s all of that, but it’s also the creeping death this modern music industry claws toward. We don’t want to play the game anymore, begging some robot to place our songs in playlists with some promise of being discovered by the world. We’ve been discovered. You discovered us. You’ll keep discovering us if you feel this music and want it. Give yourself the credit you deserve for being a curious and interested human being.
There are better ways to live. You can find us on pretty much any other streamer. You can transfer your whole library from Spotify to another platform (look below in the comments). We would love it if you bought our records or digital albums on BandCamp. But more than anything we would love it if you joined us, especially other like-minded bands. You don’t have to participate in this soulless rat race, and you don’t need to be afraid that leaving Spotify will hurt your career or your reach or your fanbase. Is getting to post that your band was listened to for 2.6k hours in a year worth anything tangible to you? Is that actual community?
We’re still here, still making music, still engaging with our fans and comrades. Just on our terms, in this very small way. Let’s get together and make it even bigger.
In Solidarity, Peace and Love,
The Prizefighters
