Sunday, September 03, 2006

Victimizing the rich and powerful

A British artist surreptitiously replaced copies of Paris Hilton's debut CD in British stores with a CD containing his own remixes of the celebrity's music, complete with altered covers with track names like Why Am I Famous? and What Have I Done? but using the original barcode so people would buy the doctored CDs without alarms going off. The industrious artist, one Banksy, got his works into 48 different stores.

The best part? No one complained. Perhaps they overestimated P.H. and thought she was actually smart and ironic enough to put out a CD with tracks entitled What Am I For?

1 comment:

Jym said...

=v= Banksy rules. He once got a framed olde portrait painting with anachronistic peace signs symbols in it, up on the wall in a museum.