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$2M for a Wu Tang Album?


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I didn't see this mentioned...

 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/09/entertainment/martin-shkreli-wu-tang-album-feat/

Legendary rap group Wu-Tang Clan announced in March 2014 that it would produce just one copy of "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin" to be sold to the highest bidder. The 31-track album would come in a hand-carved box with a leather-bound book of parchment paper containing lyrics and backstory.

 

Rumors swarmed over who would end up with one of hip-hop's most coveted albums of all time, with director Quentin Tarantino, a Wu-Tang fan and associate, leading the odds. According to Clan producer RZA, mastermind of the project, "private collectors, trophy hunters, millionaires, billionaires, unknown folks, publicly known folks, businesses, companies with commercial intent, young, old" expressed interest.

 

Today, the buyer was revealed in a Bloomberg Businessweek exclusive as none other than reviled pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli. His biggest prior claim to fame was raising the price on a drug used by AIDS and cancer patients from $13.50 to $750 per pill after his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, bought the rights to it (he later promised to lower the price).

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Eventually it will come out for everyone. You can't tell me someone in the control room didn't have their cell phone recording the tracks on playback. Then the dope that paid $2m will realize their mistake.
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