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A Sainsbury's supermarket in England recently put out an ad seeing an "ambitious artist to voluntarily refurbish our canteen." But what they really need is a scotobiologist, since all they got in response was shade.
Artists, you see, don't like being asked to work for free by companies that are more than able to pay them, and a number of them voiced their frustration on social media using the hashtag #PayArtists.
Composer Paul Johnson Rogers, for example, said the chain "should be ashamed" for asking artists to essentially work for exposure.
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