King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard lets you “name your price” for their music on Bandcamp after Spotify exitAfter pulling their music from Spotify earlier this year, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have made their catalogue available on Bandcamp – and fans can pay whatever they want for it.
The Australian rock band’s decision to quit Spotify this July came in protest of CEO Daniel Ek’s involvement in AI military drone technology. Their departure meant the vast majority of their music had disappeared from online streaming platforms.

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“I don’t really consider myself an activist, and I don’t feel comfortable soapboxing. But this feels like a decision staying true to ourselves, and doing what we think is right for our music, having our music in places that we feel all right about,” said frontman Stu Mackenzie in an interview with the LA Times last month.
Now, their albums have returned online via Bandcamp, this time with a “name your price” option instead of the previous $10 minimum.
While Bandcamp’s standard pricing is set at $9 per album or $1.50 per track, artists are allowed to set prices “in a way that reflects your goals, your audience, and the value of your work”. In this case, King Gizzard has opted to let listeners decide.
And the results speak for themselves: King Gizzard’s catalogue currently dominates the entire Top 25 of Bandcamp’s best-selling albums section. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming through Bandcamp’s free app.
The band are far from alone in leaving Spotify over Ek’s ties to Helsing. Acts such as Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hotline TNT, the Mynabirds, Kadhja Bonet, and WU LYF have all pulled their music from the platform in recent months.
“We don’t want our music killing people,” San Francisco art-rock band Deerhoof explained earlier this year. “We don’t want our success being tied to AI battle tech.”
They added that leaving the platform was a “pretty easy” decision given that “Spotify only pays a pittance anyway,” though they stressed they “don’t judge those who can’t make the same move in the short term” if the platform remains a key income source.
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