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posted by martyb on Friday September 08 2017, @06:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the legal-expenses-getting-you-down? dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday September 08 2017, @06:02PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday September 08 2017, @06:02PM (#565239)

    Cthulhu has had time to learn about recording studios, and can send his minions for the original masters, or more simply for the original authors...

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