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# Buy a Banksy Online, Weird Restrictions Apply
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/banksy-gross-domestic-products-online-store/
- Published: 2019-10-17T17:15:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:39:18.000Z
- Description: Prices are affordable in the artist's new digital shop, but that doesn't mean the products will be easy to purchase.
- Author: Hakim Bishara
- Tags: In Brief, Banksy, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/10/banksy_1460.gif)

Screenshot of Banksy’s “Shredded Tee” (on sale for about $38.50) on the artist’s online shop Gross Domestic Product (courtesy of Gross Domestic Product)

Banksy strikes again, this time with an online store. Days after he dismantled his short-lived south London brick-and-mortar [Gross Domestic Product](https://hyperallergic.com/banksy-opens-london-art-shop-same-week-he-sets-12m-auction-record/) (GDP), the artist is venturing into virtual sales. But since it’s Banksy we’re talking about, this won’t be your average digital retailer.

The [online version](https://shop.grossdomesticproduct.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) of GDP, with the addition of the tag line “Solutions for Wealth,” offers a limited supply of affordable Banksy-branded items. A mug will cost you £10.00 (\~$12.80); a clock with a running rat that recreates this [2018 street clock in 14th Street in New York](https://hyperallergic.com/432645/banksy-returns-new-york-14th-street-rat/) sells for £500 (\~$642); the stab-proof vest that was [worn by British rapper Stormzy](https://hyperallergic.com/banksy-designed-a-stab-proof-vest-for-british-rapper-stormzys-performance-at-music-festival/) during the last Glastonbury music festival goes for £850 (\~$1,092); and a half-shredded T-shirt featuring “Girl With Balloon” (2006) is on sale for just £30 (\~$38.50). The shredded shirt is “the same played-out old image, this time attacked with a knife by the artist,” the website explains, referring to the artist’s[ shredding stunt](https://hyperallergic.com/464419/1-3m-banksy-artwork-self-destructs-at-auction/) during a Sotheby’s London auction sale of the painting in October of last year. The half-shredded painting, which was renamed “[Love Is in ](https://hyperallergic.com/465363/collector-1-3m-shredded-banksy-artist-renames/)[the Bin](https://hyperallergic.com/465363/collector-1-3m-shredded-banksy-artist-renames/)” (2018), sold for $1.3 million.

There are some caveats, however. You’re wrong if you think you can just log in and purchase the items as you would in a normal online shop. “You are advised that GDP may prove to be a disappointing retail experience,” a disclaimer page that welcomes shoppers reads, “especially if you’re successful in making a purchase.”

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/10/banksy_4_1460.gif)

A Banksy mug for about $12.80\. But don’t think it will be easy to get it (courtesy of Gross Domestic Product)

Shopping on the site comes with a series of restrictions in order to allow people other than seasoned collectors to get hold of the products. “Please refrain from registering at this time if you are a wealthy art collector,” the website warns.

First, users are allowed to buy only one item. Second, it’s not a first-come-first-serve operation. Shoppers must earn the right to purchase a product by convincingly answering the question “Why does art matter?” (strikeout Banksy’s) in 50 words or less. “Prove that you’re not a robot (and a half decent human being),” the website says. The fine print in the website’s terms and conditions says that a professional stand-up comedian will examine the tie-breaker questions and will independently select responses which he deems “most apt and original.”

About two weeks ago, Banksy’s “Devolved Parliament” (2009) sold for a stupendous[ $12.1 million](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/arts/design/banksy-devolved-parliament-auction.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), shattering the artist’s previous record $1.87 million (“Keep It Spotless,” 2007).

Shoppers who are interested in Banksy’s new offerings have until October 28 to browse the website and state their interest in buying a product. Successful applicants will be notified by email within two weeks of submission. Good **l**uck if you’re a fan.