Very few people have heard the , the Wu-Tang Clan album that disgraced pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli in 2015. Starting next month, though, you’ll be able to hear a curated, 30-minute excerpt of the album, provided you can get to the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart, Tasmania, between June 15th and June 24th, . The MONA’s playback of excerpts will be part of a centered on rare and significant pop culture objects.
Tasmanian residents can get for free, but tickets go for as much as AUS$38 for anyone else. PleasrDAO, the NFT art collective that in 2021, said it will before then, that it snuck clues into articles about the Tasmanian exhibit. Wu-Tang’s seventh studio album has been through a lot.
Despite fans’ attempts to , it ended up in the clutches of Shkreli, who is most famous for extortionist pricing of life-saving medication. Wu-Tang member RZA , and the that it had confiscated it. Before he was , Shkreli but never seemed to have sold it, as the federal government before selling it to PleasrDAO.
As for Shkreli, he was released from prison in 2022 and banned from the pharmaceutical industry — a ban . PleasrDAO has a website — — where you can register your phone number to get a text message in 79 years, ostensibly to be notified when the album is available. (One of the terms of the album’s sale is essentially an embargo on reproducing it until October 8th, 2103.
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