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King Gizzard Makes Entire Catalog Pay-What-You-Want, Sweeps Bandcamp’s Best-Sellers

The shift doubles as a protest against Daniel Ek’s ties to defense-AI company Helsing through his fund Prima Materia.

Overview

  • At publication time, the band’s releases occupied the entire Top 25 on Bandcamp’s digital albums chart, with other reports counting the top 27 slots.
  • All downloadable albums are set to a name-your-price model that lets fans pay $0 or more to own the music.
  • The move follows their July withdrawal from Spotify in response to the Spotify CEO’s investment firm participating in a €600 million–plus fundraising for Helsing, which develops AI military technology.
  • The group’s unusually large catalog — reported at 27 studio albums alongside other releases — helped fuel the chart takeover.
  • Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Hotline TNT, WU LYF and others have also removed music from Spotify, while King Gizzard’s next tour leg starts in Europe in late October before Australian dates in December.