Banksy pranks Paris Hilton
Posted by Daniel Stout on Sun 3 Sep 2006 at 5:18 PM
British artist Banksy was up to hijinks once again, this time involving the release of Paris Hilton’s album Paris in the U.K. He replaced 500 copies of the disc with a CD of his own remixes, with titles like Why am I famous? and What have I done? The cover art was changed to a picture of Paris topless and with a dog’s head. Banksy, though, kept the barcode so the CDs would ring up correctly. Full BBC story here. [via WG]
Update: Jose posts a couple of choice links in the comments. One is a making of video on YouTube.
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the making of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxUl9Mxbh1E
the album artwork on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharl/sets/72157594266743665/
Thanks for the links, Jose. Unfortunately, Ms. Hilton wins regardless as it appears that the CDs were purchased, altered, and then replaced. So each CD generated two sales. Hmmm....