Finally, a reason to buy Paris Hilton's album

Rather brilliantly, the self-styled "guerilla artist", Banksy, has doctored around 500 Paris Hilton CDs and sneaked them back into record shops around the UK.

He has improved the album in three ways:
1) Replacing the songs
2) Calling the new songs things like "What Am I For?"
3) Changing the pictures so that Paris is topless, with a dog's head


How rude! (the dog's head is on the inside cover, fact fans)

In case you don't know, Banksy is a renowned underground artist who creates the majority of his work in public spaces. Generally using a combination of grafitti and stencils, his work often has a political and/or humourous message. My personal favourites are possibly his two most simple: Climbing into London Zoo's penguin enclosure and spray-painting "We're bored of fish" on the wall, and daubing the steps of the Tate Gallery with the words "Mind The Crap" on the night the Turner prize was being awarded.


One of Banksy's grafitti "installations"

So, under normal circumstances, I'd be out in the shops trying to find one of his doctored CDs as soon as possible. It's just that I don't feel any urgency in the matter. Apparently, Hilton didn't even manage to sell 500 copies of her album last week : it dropped out of the Top 75 after only 14 days on release.

Maybe Banksy could do a Shania Twain one next time round?

See more of the doctored artwork at The Gossip Rag

And definitely have a look round Banksy's website

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