Wu-Tang $2 million album buyer is that AIDS drug price-hike guy

Image: Once Upon A Time In Shaolin (Paddle8)

Martin Shkreli, that god awful pharmaceuticals boss who raised the price of an AIDS drug by 5000% has bought the only edition of Wu Tang's $2 million album Once Upon A Time in Shaolin. 

Frequent rumours suggested it was in fact Quentin Tarantino who'd splashed out on the sacred LP, only for the buyer to be revealed as well, that guy. 

The one time album, which RZA described as "like someone having the scepter of an Egyptian king" was auctioned off to the highest bidder at a private listening party.

Originally the rap group forbid it being released publicly for 88 years, until a u-turn meant that it could be released into the public domain as long as it wasn't sold commercially - something seriously perplexing when considering the redundant morals of Martin Shkreli. 

Featuring every surviving member of Wu-Tang and special guests, the record, presented in a hand carved box with a leather bound book detailing the workings of the album, has only ever been heard by RZA and co-producer Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougarh. Well until, now... 

[Via Bloomberg]

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