AbsoluteValue Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Paris Hilton targeted in CD prank Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy. 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? He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head. 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. Banksy is notorious for his secretive and subversive stunts such as sneaking doctored versions of classic paintings into major art galleries. His spokeswoman said he had tampered with the CDs in branches of HMV and Virgin as well as independent record stores. He visited cities including Bristol, Brighton, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow and London, she added. A spokesman for HMV said the chain had recovered seven CDs from two Brighton shops but was unaware that other locations were affected. Artistic leeway No customers had complained or returned a doctored version, he said. "It's not the type of behaviour you'd want to see happening very often," he 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. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5310416.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentient Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 CLASS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pakage Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 CLASS Motion Seconded! thats frikkin awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dold Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 haha, i want to shake that mans hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraser S Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 nice! i think they need to bundle her video with it as well:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thr339z Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 im all for subversive acts such as this... all media must be destroyed.. well commercial media and their plastic logos ... Viva La Banksey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 now I want to find a copy.. hell, never thought I would actually WANT to buy a Paris Hilton CD =p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madz Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 It would be worth boosting her miserable sales just to get my paws on a Banksy piece. Bless him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 rumour has it (read it in THE SUN so dont believe it 100%) that Dangermouse did the remixs on the tracks as well. These things are going for stupid $ on ebay so im out of luck =( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perceptualChaos Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 yeah you'd have to be a f*#!ng idiot to return one of those to the store. Well I guess there'd be alot of those buying the album in the first place... Check out this video on youtube that I found on his website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perceptualChaos Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 The audio on the youtube video is what was on the CD although the CD goes on for 40 minutes with heaps of samples of stupid shit she has said. Its kinda funny. "I do have money in real life". Supposedly waxploitation have confirmed that the remix was indeed done by DangerMouse - cant be assed hunting down the exact location of this press release though - its supposed to be on their website or myspace or something. I hunted down pictures and audio If the audio link gets taken down send me a PM and I'll hook you up. Its not really that special though - you get the jist of it from the youtube video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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