15 Dec 2009
Rage Factor
This campaign now has hand painted signs to support it! The objective is to ‘steal’ the Christmas number one spot from this year’s X-Factor winner and here are the painters at work spreading the message. If you want to help with the effort then for just 29p you can do your bit to crack Cowell and mug McElderry. There’s also a Facebook group you can join.
Rage on!
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