Young is now presenting his archives on a purposely old-fashioned website billed as “the cutting edge of filing-cabinet technology,” and one of my colleagues just reminded me that journalists who wanted to cover Young’s Pono high-resolution audio service used to have to send interview requests by fax. At a time when streaming is the biggest source of revenue for recorded music, and Spotify is by many measures the most important streaming service, it was a bold move from an artist who has always insisted on doing things his own way.

More to the point, it was before Young went from idealistically old-fashioned to downright odd, at least to judge by the tone of the initial coverage, by asking that his music be taken down from Spotify, in protest of the COVID-19 misinformation presented on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. That was back before Apple Music billed itself as “the home of Neil Young.”

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