NEW YORK - SWINDLED

By viceland

Man, we are really digging the back cover of the new Swindle. Of course, we liked it a little bit better when we ran it in our Photo Issue three years ago and then re-printed it as the last page in our Photo Book, but a good picture's a good picture, nawwa'eresayin? We thought it might be an honest mistake—after all, Shepard Fairey probably has a pretty difficult time keeping his ear to the ground between all the album artwork and celebrity guitars and culture-jamming Bush out of the White House—but an anonymous insider told us, "The whole office was against using that picture, but Shepard insisted on it. It was a huge scandal. Everyone was emailing him about how old it was, and he just wouldn't back down. Originally he wanted to put it on the front cover. Thankfully, we managed to talk him out of that, but this is still super embarrassing." Oops.