Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company 'Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’
Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company 'Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’
Banksy told his followers to shoplift from the Regent Street Guess store in London after it displayed a collection that used his artwork without permission.
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Banksy isn’t happy with Guess’ latest collaboration.
The legendary anonymous graffiti artist had a directive for his followers on Friday, encouraging them—possibly tongue in cheek, possibly not—to visit the Regent Street Guess store in London and steal the brand’s new collection that features his artwork.
“Attention all shoplifters. Please go to Guess on Regents Street. They’ve helped themselves to my artwork without asking, how can it be wrong for you to do the same to their clothes?”
Nov 18, 2022
Does anyone have a follow up story of this?
Guess panicked and shut it all down. Brandalized, the graffiti commercializers, had a predictable shit take.
Wow, this old shit has been posted in multiple places.
Lol why the fuck is there a shoplifting community on here
If you really want to know, you should read Abby Hoffman's "Steal This Book".
Brief and lazy summary: capitalism is at war with the poor, capitalism is structural violence against the poor, business owners are part of the machine of capitalism and foot soldiers in that war, and shoplifting is a non-violent way for the poor to fight back.
Businesses make profit by exploiting the labor of the working class. Shoplifting reclaims that profit for the working class.
All property is theft and property rights are bullshit.
And that's why a socialist instance dedicated to environmental utopia hosts a shoplifting community.
Not saying I agree with it but there it is.
But I sincerely doubt that this community is thinking only about poor who steal from the rich in order to survive. Since this is a community for celebrating shoplifting, kids who feel they're entitled to everything are based, actual examples are just taking what you want without paying and the pinned post explaining what this community is about ends with "let's steal some shit".
This community looks like it's just about stealing what you want, while using the plight of the poor as an excuse to steal nail polish.
There's like one guy and you're only hurting yourself, you're not supporting a cause in an incredibly stupid way.
Its for the shoplifters.
Right, of course
*without paying