THROW YOUR SET IN THE AIR:
Bomb the Music Industry! is a collective of musicians moreso than a band. The goal is to have a stress-free environment to write, record and perform music. Of course, if anyone plays a wrong note in this "collective" they will be thrown out of the "collective" and will be forced to start a "band." Here is a list of people who are involved with this project:

JEFF ROSENSTOCK (The Arrogant Sons of Bitches) - VOCALS, GUITARS, PROGRAMMING/RECORDING
JOHN DEDOMENICI (The Arrogant Sons of Bitches) - GUITARS, VOCALS
MIKE COSTA (The Arrogant Sons of BItches) - DRUMS
LAURA STEVENSON - KEYBOARDS, VOCALS
DAVE SOLOMON (High School Football Heroes) - TROMBONE
JASON RUTCOFSKY (High School Football Heroes) - SAXOPHONE
JAMES LYNCH (Beret!) - BASS
ETHAN KILL NORMAL (The Flaming Tsunamis, Doozer) - BASS
JENNA BEATTY - SYNTHESIZERS, SAXOPHONES, ETC.
CHRISTINE MACKIE - ART DEPARTMENT
CRAIG HOWE - ETC.
STEVE FOOTE (Big D and the Kids Table) - FUZZ BASS
JEFF TOBIAS (We Versus the Shark) - ETC.

THE WHOLE MERCH PROBLEM THING:
After being on tour with lots of bands and watching lots of bands play, I realized that after every show I would ask the same question. "How did you guys do in merch tonight?" or "How'd you guys do?" for short. They would ask us the same thing. This was another way of asking if we had a good show, a gauge that was fair to measure it on was the amount of money that we made. If we had a good show but didn't sell any merch we'd say "what the hell happened?" If we played like shit but sold a lot of stuff we'd say "I guess we played better than we thought." It was always easy enough to measure our performance by the amount of consumers per show. After a while I started to remember how much I hated asking/begging people to buy stuff at every show as if their attendance wasn't enough support for me. To top it all off, the money that we made had to go back into more merch and paying off debts for previous merch and CDs so we would have money that we thought was ours but months later we'd have to give to someone else after already spending it on gas.

SO the plan for this band was to take that all out of the equation. This does not mean that other bands who sell CDs are bad. This does not mean that we're self-righteous. This is just another way we are attemtping to take the pressure off of everyone attending a Bomb the Music Industry! show or being in the band.

FREE EVERYTHING:
Bomb the Music Industry! will do the best to make sure that you the "listener/mindless consumer" becomes simply the "listener" or dare I say, "participant." We will record music on our own personal equipment

CDS/MUSIC: All Bomb the Music Industry! songs are available for free download and recommended personal distribution to your friends or your enemies who hate loud music at this website. If you bring a blank CD-R to the show, a full-quality version of the CD will be copied for you along with an enhanced portion that contains all the lyrics and artwork in case you want to look at it or print it out. After you have that, we encourage you to burn copies for your friends and burn copies of Story of the Year's CD for you enemies.

SHIRTS/HATS/HOODIES/ETC: We can't put up t-shirts and shit that you can download off the internet. It also probably wouldn't be very helpful for anyone if we made artwork based for screens for you to download, emulsify and screen. That'd cost you like fifty bucks a shirt. So, if you bring a BLANK T-SHIRT/HOODIE/HAT/ANY ARTICLE OF CLOTHING to a show, our art department will personally make you a t-shirt at our merch table at the show. Pretty easy.

SIDE PROJECT SYNDROME:
Bomb the Music Industry! is not a replacement for any bands that any members are currently in, regardless of what any of us have said while drunk. All songs on this website right now are Bomb the Music Industry! demos recorded by Jeff Rosenstock. They are not performed by the band and they were made in one of two bedrooms. So be nice.

PLEASE BOOK US:
Bomb the Music Industry! would love to play a show. We would require gas money and probably a little bit extra so we can afford to keep our van. Originally the plan was to only ask for gas money and bring a receipt to every show until I realized that bands do incur slight expenses. Communism works on paper but does not work on the internet.

IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT:
A good way to say "thank you" would be to spread the gospel of Bomb the Music Industry! all across the globe. Play the ASOB card! Play the Ian MacKaye card! Play the mixed gender card! We don't care! We just want to force everyone else to listen to what we think is good taste.