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Following Martin Shkreli's conviction for securities fraud, he has listed his unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album on eBay. He purchased the album for $2 million in 2015 and has repeatedly threatened to destroy it:
Martin Shkreli may finally release the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, that he purchased back in 2015. The widely despised pharma bro has listed the album on eBay and is currently taking bids. At the time of publish, offers are hovering around $100,000.
The sale includes the double CD and a "finely crafted booklet," as well as legal expenses up to $25,000 "to ensure the final purchase details are mutually agreeable." In the listing, spotted by Page Six, Shkreli writes that he "decided to purchase this album as a gift to the Wu-Tang Clan for their tremendous musical output. Instead I received scorn from at least one of their (least-intelligent) members, and the world at large failed to see my purpose of putting a serious value behind music. I will be curious to see if the world values music nearly as much as I have." Shkreli claims that he will donate half of the sale proceeds to medical research.
[In the listing], Shkreli notes that "at any time I may cancel this sale and I may even break this album in frustration."
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 08 2017, @10:43AM (1 child)
Always figured that guy for just another Joe Random arsehole/sociopath from the investment banker scene, dime a dozen.
But looking at a retrospective of his complete works I now come to the conclusion that he can not be a real person. Literally every one of his publicity stunts is so grotesquely over the top... probability alone would suggest that no single person could accidentally miss the mark by 180° in 100% of cases.
I am now convinced that the guy grew up on 4chan and just took the sociopathic troll thing the logical next step. Imagine all those *chan memes, spoken out loud by Shkreli. It kind of makes sense. Exhibit A: for his first real "coup" he went after an AIDS-related drug. The jokes practically write themselves here.
Not sure whether to bow down and worship the master, or pray for a quick and merciful end of humanity in the upcoming Fire and Fury. Because this seems to be the new normal: GIFT [knowyourmeme.com] extended to RL.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 08 2017, @04:58PM
Neither. I'd say let him go free BUT take ALL his assets and money and make it so he can only ever take minimum-wage jobs. For his kind, and all white-collar criminals, that would be hell on earth.
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