Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Paris Gets Replaced

Graffiti artist Banksy pranked various UK record stores by replacing hundreds of copies of Paris' shitty album with his own remixes and some hysterically doctored cover art that can be viewed here. Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For? A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK. She told the BBC News website: "He switched the CDs in store, so he took the old ones out and put his version in." But he left the original barcode so people could buy the CD without realising it had been interfered with. No customers had complained or returned a doctored version. Here is a video of the prank going down with some of the sampled remixes:

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