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"  In what could be described as a smart marketing move, a dumb marketing move, or just an elaborate April&amp;#039;s Fools Day joke, 25-year-old electronic artist Paz Dylan planted 5,000 of his own CDs inside fake Justin Bieber &amp;quot;Believe&amp;quot; cases, reports Los Angeles CBS News. The NOT Bieber discs wound up in Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart stores across L.A. Dylan called his stunt a performance art piece, adding a dig that would make a Belieber shudder: &amp;quot;The world won&amp;#039;t really miss a Justin Bieber record.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always believed that retail stores can be the best outlets and ambassadors for independent music,&amp;quot; Dylan told the Associated Press. &amp;quot;They just choose not to be and sell the same recycled [expletive]. We thought if they&amp;#039;re going to lock their doors to independent musicians, we&amp;#039;re just going to knock them down and get our music in there.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Knocking them down&amp;quot; meant enlisting the help of other indie artists to package the faux Believer cases, giving them bar codes and everything. &amp;quot;We were meticulous,&amp;quot; Dylan said. &amp;quot;We wanted these to stay up on shelves as long as possible.&amp;quot; The stores were out of the loop, of course: a Best Buy manager, when presented with a faux CD purchased by a reporter, said he wasn&amp;#039;t aware of the swap-out. Wal-Mart&amp;#039;s spokeswoman denied any incidents; Best Buy hasn&amp;#039;t commented; and Target&amp;#039;s claimed the company was investigating the matter. As for Dylan&amp;#039;s synth record, it&amp;#039;s much more Miley than Justin, with images of cats, pizza, and a dog stuffed inside a taco printed on the disc. Tracks include &amp;quot;From the Bottom of My Heart to the Top of Your Lungs.&amp;quot; Will you be listening, Beliebers? Follow Alyssa on Twitter. RELATED: Is This Proof That Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber Are a Thing? Justin Bieber Wants To Be an Underwear Model Now LOL: Justin Bieber Thinks He&amp;#039;s James Dean Photo credit: WireImage "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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