Originally published at: Ian Curtis mural, painted over with advertisement, to be restored | Boing Boing
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Would be Amazon…
I was struggling to think who on earth would think this was a good idea, until I saw that logo.
They still had to get permission from whoever owns that building.
Amazon kind of the experts of “legally okay, but morally wrong”
Can anyone read the spraypainted in red comment on the covering ad? I assume it’s something like “Dumbass! You’d paint over a Banksy too!”
And who are experts in knowing the cost of everything, and the value of nothing.
The ignorant asshat who signed off on this little exercise in cultural fuckwittery, I hope, had their employment terminated with extreme prejudice as soon as word got out.
It’s inconceivable to me that anyone wouldn’t know the significance of Ian Curtis to the whole region.
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