What's the money got to do with it? Footballers get paid £100,000 a week. Pop tarts wear new frocks every 3 minutes. Why do you assume I have an issue with someone making money? Good on Banksy for being successful on that score. Stuff like what he did in Palestine on the walls the Israelis erected is great; draws attention to the situation, makes folk think. But then, so do journalists and charity workers. It's just that they do it for mainly humanitarian reasons, whereas with Banksy it seems more about raising his profile (and the value of his 'art').
So yeah, there's a certain amount of hypocrisy in what he does. But the actual art itself, including the concept, is neither new nor particularly outstanding on it's own. Been done before and better, Banksy is just skilled at marketing it. Exploiting the situation, as it were. And he criticises Tescos…
I don't think he's rubbish. I just think there's better out there, and I see through him.
'Hey let's stick it to the man, yeah, right on…'
Pfft. Give over yer daft sod.