• Wu Tang Clan's one of a kind album has been sold
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To comic book villain pharma CEO, Martin Shkreli [quote]According to RZA, [I]Shaolin[/I] attracted many suitors: “Private collectors, trophy hunters, millionaires, billionaires, unknown folks, publicly known folks, businesses, companies with commercial intent, young, old,” he says. “It varied.” Serious bidders got to hear the 13-minute highlights in private listening sessions arranged by Paddle8 in New York.One of them was a pharmaceutical company executive named Martin Shkreli. He’s 32 years old but seems much younger, with a tendency to fiddle with his hair and squirm in his seat like an adolescent. The son of Albanian immigrants, Shkreli grew up in what he describes as a tough part of Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay neighborhood. He skipped grades in school because he was so bright. Shkreli idolized scientists, but he was also a music fan. Primarily interested in rock as a teenager, he didn’t understand rap, but that changed when he read Shakespeare in high school. “You would get these rhyming couplets and soliloquies and stuff like that, but the couplets would really kind of jar you,” he says. “They would be really these big, soul-crushing moments that Shakespeare intended to stir your spirit. And in many ways, music does that.” Shkreli was taken by the Wu-Tang song [I]C.R.E.A.M.[/I], which stands for “Cash Rules Everything Around Me.” It includes the often-repeated phrase “Dolla dolla bill, y’all!” Shkreli turned out to be good at making dollars himself. He founded two hedge funds that shorted pharmaceutical stocks and then started his own drug company, Retrophin, [URL="http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-04-17/retrophins-martin-shkreli-the-biotech-short-seller-who-went-long"]earning a reputation on Wall Street as something of a boy genius[/URL]. In September 2014, however, he says he was “asked to leave” by the company’s board. Retrophin later alleged after an internal investigation that he’d abused his position and misused assets. Shkreli says that he didn’t do anything without the company’s approval. Retrophin and its former CEO are now facing off in court. “I was pretty pissed,” Shkreli says. “But I realized that it actually would be better for me, maybe not ego-wise, but financially. I could just sell my stock and build my own next company.”[/quote] Important to note: [quote]After learning that [I]Bloomberg Businessweek[/I] was about to report that Shkreli had purchased the album, RZA e-mailed a statement: “The sale of [I]Once Upon a Time in Shaolin[/I] was agreed upon in May, well before Martin Skhreli’s [[I]sic[/I]] business practices came to light. We decided to give a significant portion of the proceeds to charity.”[/quote] [quote]Now that Shkreli had more money, he started collecting music-related items. He once joked on Twitter about trying to buy Katy Perry’s guitar so he could get a date with her. He purchased Kurt Cobain’s Visa card in a Paddle8 auction and occasionally produces it to get a rise out of people when it’s time to pay a check.[/quote] What a turd [url]http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan-album/[/url]
I don't really get why they'd only sell a one-off album. It doesn't really seem like them. I mean, a lot of their lyrics are about disadvantaged lives and hardship - does selling this one-off to a CEO really tie in with that? I don't know a lot about this one-off, so maybe I'm misinterpreting a lot of this.
part of me thinks he's too much of a self-absorbed spineless cunt not to show it to anyone else
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;49279095]I don't really get why they'd only sell a one-off album. It doesn't really seem like them. I mean, a lot of their lyrics are about disadvantaged lives and hardship - does selling this one-off to a CEO really tie in with that? I don't know a lot about this one-off, so maybe I'm misinterpreting a lot of this.[/QUOTE] $$$$$ all that matters
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;49279095]I don't really get why they'd only sell a one-off album. It doesn't really seem like them. I mean, a lot of their lyrics are about disadvantaged lives and hardship - does selling this one-off to a CEO really tie in with that? I don't know a lot about this one-off, so maybe I'm misinterpreting a lot of this.[/QUOTE] Other members of the group have been vocal about how stupid this is. [editline]9th December 2015[/editline] [url]http://www.complex.com/music/2015/03/wu-tang-clan-album-88-year-release?utm_campaign=complexmusic%2Bsocialflow%2B03%2B2015&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social[/url] [quote]In an interview with XXL, Wu-Tang member Method Man criticized the release plan for Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which as previously reported will have an 88-year copyright attached to it. "Fuck that album," he said. “I’m tired of this shit and I know everybody else is tired of it, too. Fuck that album, if that’s what they are doing. I haven’t heard anything like that, but if they’re doing crap like that, fuck that album. Straight up. I’m just keeping it 100. When music can’t be music and y’all turning it into something else, fuck that." "Give it to the people," he continued. "If they want to hear the shit, let them have it. Give it away free. I don’t give a fuck; that ain’t making nobody rich or poor. Give the fucking music out. Stop playing with the public, man."[/quote]
Skreli is the very embodiment of the American system. Guess he can enjoy the Album.
FUCKING SHKRELI STRIKES AGAIN
This guy really knows how to piss people off lol
[QUOTE=TG2;49279181]FUCKING SHKRELI STRIKES AGAIN[/QUOTE] Sinister Shkreli
[quote]He once joked on Twitter about trying to buy Katy Perry’s guitar so he could get a date with her.[/quote] are you sure that was a joke because this seems to be a trend in his attempts at forcing people to hang out with him, like donating some measly sum to Bernie to try and get a talk in
[QUOTE=dai;49279667]are you sure that was a joke because this seems to be a trend in his attempts at forcing people to hang out with him, like donating some measly sum to Bernie to try and get a talk in[/QUOTE] Yeah he said he bought the album so that he could hang out with people who wanted to listen to it, he's basically Nathan Fielder in Nathan For You but less likeable
[quote]He purchased Kurt Cobain’s Visa card in a Paddle8 auction and occasionally produces it to get a rise out of people when it’s time to pay a check.[/quote] This man is an Internet troll who's realised that in real life, money can be a substitute for anonymity.
[quote]It’s a Friday afternoon at Turing’s Manhattan headquarters, and Shkreli and his employees are preparing for a Christmas party that evening. Three executives play a video game. A woman shows Shkreli the cocktail dress she plans to wear. Shkreli had arranged for the rap star Fetty Wap to perform for his employees. “Typically you would say, ‘As an average fan, I can’t get Fetty Wap to give me a personal concert,’ ” he says. “The reality is, sure you could. You know, at the right price these guys basically will do anything.”[/quote] yeah this sounds like the kinda guy who'll release MP3s of the album, sure
I just hope he will never snatch Music for Supermarkets into his hands too.
Reading up on this guy more, the only thing I can be happy about is that one day he will be dead. What a waste of space.
This guy is deadset on winning the cunt of the universe award. He just does some ass-backwards things, but we can't do anything about it because he's richer than Trump's toupee.
[QUOTE=Swiket;49279114]Other members of the group have been vocal about how stupid this is. [editline]9th December 2015[/editline] [url]http://www.complex.com/music/2015/03/wu-tang-clan-album-88-year-release?utm_campaign=complexmusic%2Bsocialflow%2B03%2B2015&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social[/url][/QUOTE] watch as they release a free mp3 to everyone just to spite the buyer for being a general cunt
And just when I thought this whole concept couldn't get any stupider, THIS motherfucker is the buyer.
I have a feeling he was bullied as a child and now that he's really fucking rich hes a douche just because. [sp]he's born on aprils fools too oops[/sp]
[QUOTE=Vaught;49279993]This guy is deadset on winning the cunt of the universe award. He just does some ass-backwards things, but we can't do anything about it because he's richer than Trump's toupee.[/QUOTE] Just because he bought the album or ?
Rumours a few days ago was that Tarantino brought it
[QUOTE=CMB Unit 01;49279095]I don't really get why they'd only sell a one-off album. It doesn't really seem like them. I mean, a lot of their lyrics are about disadvantaged lives and hardship - does selling this one-off to a CEO really tie in with that? I don't know a lot about this one-off, so maybe I'm misinterpreting a lot of this.[/QUOTE] It's a piece of interpretive art about how we value music in an age where everybody illegally downloads or using streaming services. Maybe along the way it did get turned into a publicity stunt and way of making big dollar, but the original idea is kind of neat.
hate him for fucking over medicine people need and not for buying a fucking one off album cmon, this is a dumb thing to get angry over him for
[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;49280415]hate him for fucking over medicine people need and not for buying a fucking one off album cmon, this is a dumb thing to get angry over him for[/QUOTE] We can be angry at him for more than one thing, you know. I'm annoyed as a Wu Tang fan that I won't get to listen to the music.
[QUOTE=Bat-shit;49280195]Just because he bought the album or ?[/QUOTE] Reptilians need music too, I really don't get it either.
Here's the article btw [url]http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan-album/[/url] [quote]He hasn’t listened to Once Upon a Time in Shaolin yet. He’s saving that for a time when he’s feeling low and needs something to lift his spirits. “I could be convinced to listen to it earlier if Taylor Swift wants to hear it or something like that,” Shkreli says. “But for now, I think I’m going to kind of save it for a rainy day.”[/quote] Yeah fuck this guy. What an asshole
[QUOTE=Trogdon;49281043]Here's the article btw [url]http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan-album/[/url] Yeah fuck this guy. What an asshole[/QUOTE] Oh whoops, I completely forgot to put that in the OP, will edit it in now
I swear at one point this guy is going to fall so fucking hard. On the other hand, the money he spent on the album does go to charity (most of it) so there is that... Unless it goes to one of the many corrupt charities..
[QUOTE=Trogdon;49281043]Here's the article btw [url]http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan-album/[/url] Yeah fuck this guy. What an asshole[/QUOTE] This guy really is a fucking creep isn't he, why does he keep calling specefic people out like that trying to bribe them into hanging out with him. :v: It's just a weird, indirect way to go about it.
[QUOTE=LSK;49281540]This guy really is a fucking creep isn't he, why does he keep calling specefic people out like that trying to bribe them into hanging out with him. :v: It's just a weird, indirect way to go about it.[/QUOTE] I think up till recently he got this massive amount of money so he thinks that having lots of money equals having the right to hang out with celebrities.
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