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!

 

(Click to download full lyrics)

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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 #10

"Fitehouse's revolutionary tactics exposed in media."


Golly, it sure seems like someone at Fitehouse has been leaking information to the press! Despite efforts to keep our anti-industry strategies quiet, news of the Fitehouse revolution has been getting out. Geoff Harkness of the KC Pitch wrote a brilliant exposé on the group’s “guerrilla marketing tactics,” highlighting Fitehouse as an example of a new model for bands in the post-record-label age. He also recognized our major contribution to the new musical era -- that propaganda itself can be a creative act! (hmm... maybe Kansas City has more than just some “crazy little women” after all). Of course, we are fighting a war on two fronts: Besides creating a self-promotional road-map for the digital age, we are working to hasten the collapse of the recording industry regime. Recognizing our academic efforts in this area, Joe Nickell of the Missoulian ran a feature on the Fitehouse DLI survey & our challenge to the RIAA to back up its bogus claims about file sharing. (Unfortunately, the RIAA was “not available” for comment).

Having been featured in more than 10 cities nationwide, we recognize that the press is close on our trail. Still, to date we have been able to keep our secret Weapon for Music Dissemination (WMD) under wraps. When we drop the “Bomb”TM, the industry will truly be running scared...

Fitehouse...forging a new musical order!

Parsing perplexing periodicals
presupposes patient perusal
(not perfunctory peaks) of
the pertinent paragraphs!

 

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