Buy it NEVER!
The Daily Intel folk at New York Mag report that hopefuls (heh) wanting to get their sticky mitts on a Shepard Fairey X Barack Obama poster are shit outta luck.
The iconic “Hope” image will no longer be sold on the artist’s web site because haters just can’t help themselves. “I just sold as many posters as I needed to keep making more posters. If I kept selling… the Internet chatter would have been, ‘Oh, well Shepard Fairey’s just trying to cash in on this Obama thing.’”
Of course the same Internet that vilifies such wondrous menschfaces as mister Fairey also brings dudes as awesome as THIS GUY. who not only is selling TWO (better hurry up!) Fairey-signed Obama posters at $5 K EACH but is also selling two copies of The Audacity of Hope, both SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT ELECT and strangely priced at $4500 LESS than the artwork.
SO…
Shepard Fairey is important. Important is expensive. Shep is more expensive than Obama. Graf artist is more important than president. TADA! Post hoc ergo propter hoc has approved this message. YAY!
