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    the manual is a quality read.
    i've got his book "45" but only read the first couple of chapters (im not a reader and easily tire of a book)
    also got the photo-book of them burning a million

    im a BIIIIIG fan of the KLF and always have been.
    love how they played with the media and took the piss out of "the establishment". thats something that somebody desperately needs to do right now!!!! especially with the likes of Banksy and Damien Hirst commanding stupid amounts of money for fuck all.

    I did my dissertation at art college about the creative exploits of the KLFand the way they kicked against the system and mocked the establishment. unfortunately, the title i chose and some of the content didnt go down too well with "the establishment" who were marking my dissertation.
    While discussing "mocking/fighting against the establishment" i used examples of me doing as such and managing to wangle out of going to art history lectures and life drawing classes - argueing it was NO RELEVANCE to what i wanted to do as a career and my time would be better spent in the computer suite. So it was a kind of "fuck off" to the lecturers and art history folk (the folk marking the dissertation). I also questioned why we did dissertations etc.

    Around the time i was doing my dissertation the KLF had had a single out called "fuck the millennium".

    So i called my dissertation FUCK THE DISSERTATION

    was nicely printed and book bound and in a black card sleeve that had the words (in true KLF stylee - BIG BOLD SANS) ....

    FUCK THE DISSERTATION on the cover.

    I got a 2:1 for my hons degree - it was my dissertation result that brought me down from a first i reckon.
    something i am quite proud of though.
    FUCK THE ESTABLISHMENT!!!! lol

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    • you can also buy canvas prints of his work at galleries across the UK. dean galleries edinburgh have them23kon
    • 23kon, isn't fucking the establishment kind of dancing with it? and yr still hot about it?
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