As some of you know, I work at a supermarket. Despite having a "real" job, I find it useful to retain a shift on Sunday just for a constant influx of cash (since the real job pays monthly, I am usually broke by the end of the pay period). Anyway, today as I was going home I saw they were going to throw out a bin which had been used to contain M&Ms.
"Damn!" I thought, as I saw the posters pasted around the bin. What drew my eye was a "vintage" communist propaganda-style poster for M&M. It is a promotion being run where the company invites consumers to vote for their favourite colour M&M.
Predictably, Green is a tree-hugger, and all that. But Red…Red is a communist dictator!
I just had to have it. So I asked the manager dude if I could take them. He glanced at it and went "all yours".
I painstakingly cut the tape which was holding the poster captive, and when I got home I carefully peeled off whatever tape was left on the poster without tearing it.
I loved the stylistic choices in that poster and the fact that it was styled in a vintage cheapo type paper complete with printed folds and stains.
It just made it easier too, since the vintage style of the poster meant that the poor condition of the poster (it had been in retail, and then dumped in the dock) didn’t really affect the look. I did clean it up some though.
Whatever dirt is left, is printed on. 
Anyhow, here it is. 5.74MB JPEG goodness, 5880×8031 resolution.
I bet someone can vector this and blow it up huge.
Lossless TIFF available on request (36MB).
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