diff --git a/beetsplug/discogs.py b/beetsplug/discogs.py
index 97834c500..28b863d4b 100644
--- a/beetsplug/discogs.py
+++ b/beetsplug/discogs.py
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ discogs-client library.
 from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function
 
 import beets.ui
-from beets import logging
 from beets import config
 from beets.autotag.hooks import AlbumInfo, TrackInfo, Distance
 from beets.plugins import BeetsPlugin
@@ -38,10 +37,6 @@ import traceback
 from string import ascii_lowercase
 
 
-# Silence spurious INFO log lines generated by urllib3.
-urllib3_logger = logging.getLogger('requests.packages.urllib3')
-urllib3_logger.setLevel(logging.CRITICAL)
-
 USER_AGENT = u'beets/{0} +http://beets.io/'.format(beets.__version__)
 
 # Exceptions that discogs_client should really handle but does not.