The Running Scared EP

The Bomb EP

If Thomas Jefferson were alive today
He'd view record companies with dismay.

If Thomas Paine were here he'd say
Expose the evil of the RIAA.

And if Samuel Adams were to join the fray...
He'd dump the CDs in the Bay.

Say it loud and let 'em know...
The Big Five labels have got to go!

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"In this day and age where email is becoming the norm, these postcards are a revelation made up of equal parts of Karl Marx and Groucho Marx."

- Bob Burke, Director of Social Sciences and History, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Branch, Baltimore, MD

"Are you tired of hearing news about the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA, hereafter) suing 12-year-old children for downloading music? If so, there is a band that you should check out. Fitehouse"

- Michael J. Puglisi, Editor-in-Chief, The Georgetonian

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Running Scared was released under the Fitehouse General Public Music license. The FGPML is an open source license, meaning that we are encouraging individuals to copy, modify and build upon "Running Scared" by making its "source code" (that is, the raw instrumental and vocal tracks) readily available. The Fitehouse GPML is similar to the Creative Commons License, however the FGPML also requires the musician to make their raw tracks available to other artists.

(Click to download the FGPM)

To hear Running Scared, go to the music downloads page.

The Bomb Postcard Campaign

In 2003 Fitehouse initiated an all out assault on the music Industry, begining with the nationwide distribution of the incidiary pamphlet Common Musical Sense. We then took on the myth that somehow file-sharing was behind the Industry's woes with our provacative Fitehouse Discouraged Listener Index Survey; the putsch then proceeded with a series of web press conferences which responded point-by-point to the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA's) attacks on students and music lovers.

At that point we initiated our Bomb campaign. A series of 12 postcards was sent out to 1,700 members the national alternative press and independent radio; we then expanded the campaign to include 1,100 college newspapers and university radio stations. The cards highlighted Fitehouse's guerrilla rock-n-roll tactics and accomplishments, and culminated with the "dropping of the Bomb," Fitehouse's embracing of open source music. The Bomb itself was the anti-RIAA rant-athem "Running Scared", which was released under the Fitehouse General Public Music (see side bar). Fitehouse would use open-source music as a way to re-invigorate the growth of our Cultural Commons.

Below are the postcards that made up the campaign. Click on the pictures for larger images or follow the text links to read the stories that appeared on the reverse side of the postcards. It's all good ol' fashion photography folks -- no photoshop manipulation whatsoever! To see the press release that went out with the mailing to the national alternative press, click here.

Postcard #1 (click here for text)	Postcard #2 (click here for text)
Postcard #3 (click here for text)	Postcard #4 (click here for text)
Postcard #5 (click here for text)	Postcard #6 (click here for text)
Postcard #7 (click here for text)	Postcard #8 (click here for text)
Postcard #9 (click here for text)	Postcard #10 (click here for text)
Postcard #11 (click here for text)	Postcard #12 (click here for text)

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