This is one on my favorite ever Banksy stunts let me tell you a little about it.

Paris Hilton, with nothing more than a profile of a socialite, famous for being famous…OK let’s put out a record.

Jumping on an already heavy overloaded bandwagon and no doubt utilizing every piece of technology to get it done, it got made and arrived in shops in Autumn 2006.

Now who else but Banksy could possibly pull off one of the greatest stunts to hit the music industry since Jarvis Cocker beautifully interrupted Michael Jackson’s Earth Song performance at the Brits 1996 when storming the stage and wiggling his Arse in protest.

Banksy upon discovering the release ‘doctored’ the CD’S by changing the cover picture to a topless Paris and inner picture to one with her head replaced with a dog, also then putting some tasty comments and slogans dotted around as artwork, such as ‘ 90% of success is just showing up’.

He also replaced the CD with his own mix made with Dangermouse, classic tracks as ‘Why am I famous’ ‘ What have I done’ and ‘What am I for’.

How did he do it you may ask? He visited HMV/VIRGIN and some Independent record stores up and down the country ‘replacing’ the original for his version, he did it twice. The first batch of 500 had a plain CD-rom with Paris and a Heart on it and then a further 1000 were deposited in the same way this time they had a custom made CD-rom with various Banksy quote’s on it and crucially for ID purposes BANKSY 001 Laser etched into the reverse.

So the story goes some disgruntled purchasers who actually wanted to hear Paris’s masterpiece returned their purchases to stores and demanded a replacement, this therefore rendered many of the true masterpieces (Banksy’s) to the bin.

It is not known exactly how many are in circulation now, but it can’t be many, this is why they have become a very highly sought after piece for any Banksy collector to own and hey Dangermouse’s mix isn’t too dusty either.

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Paris Hilton made a record?