If you're not familiar with
Banksy, he's a grafitti and "subversive" artist. He's been known to sneek his own sketches and paintings into art museums and put them up between million dollar paintings, just to see how long it takes for the staff to notice. His latest stunt: replacing Paris Hilton's latest CD with his own in HMV and Virgin stores.. The reason I post is because the stores seem to have a rather refreshing take on it:
"It's not the type of behaviour you'd want to see happening very often," [a HMV spokesman] said.
"I guess you can give an individual such as Banksy a little bit of leeway for his own particular brand of artistic engagement.
"Often people might have a view on something but feel they can't always express it, but it's down to the likes of Banksy to say often what people think about things.
"And it might be that there will be some people who agree with his views on the Paris Hilton album."
A spokesman for Virgin Megastores said staff were searching for affected CDs but it was proving hard to find them all.
"I have to take my hat off - it's a very good stunt," he added.
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the guys: philogynist jaime tony - the gals:raymi raspil
