Neil Young gives Greenlanders a key to ‘Our House’ and more

Neil Young gives Greenlanders a key to ‘Our House’ and more


Hey, Greenland โ€” feeling a little low after President Trumpโ€™s ongoing attempts to buy or otherwise acquire the land under your feet? Neil Young can fix that framework!

Just keep โ€œRockinโ€™ in the Free World.โ€ For free. Forever.

The 80-year-old โ€œhippie at heartโ€ on Tuesday granted โ€œour friends in Greenlandโ€ a year of free access to his music catalog, hoping that its contents โ€œease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government.โ€

(Of course, all U.S. administrations, even Trumpโ€™s, are effectively temporary, given the whole โ€œelections every four yearsโ€ thing. That should ease some stress right there.)

โ€œIt is my sincere wish for you to be able to enjoy all of my music in your beautiful Greenland home, in its highest quality,โ€ Young wrote on his blog. โ€œThis is an offer of Peace and Love. All the music i have made during the last 62 years is yours to hear.โ€ Itโ€™s unclear whether heโ€™s giving away the middle-tier โ€œRustโ€ subscription, which is just a penny under $45 a year, or the top-notch โ€œPatronโ€ subscription, which adds unspecified extras and a promise of priority treatment for $99.99 annually. The basic level subscription, at $24.99 a year, doesnโ€™t provide the โ€œhighest qualityโ€ sound or the โ€œmusic filmsโ€ his message promises.

Greenlanders who take him up on his offer can renew for free annually as long as they stay put on the island. Youngโ€™s team will need cellphone numbers with the Greenland country code: 299.

Young said he hoped other โ€œorganizationsโ€ would follow in his footsteps.

He does have a โ€œHeart of Gold,โ€ after all.

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