Pay $1 to Hear Wu-Tang Clan’s Secret Album (Eventually)

Its a fascinating story, Shkreli is a character to say the least.<p>There is a very poor quality recording of Shkreli playing it on stream available on a shady file sharing site near you. Sounds interesting but probably not worth the flight to Tasmania (as per article, there are listening sessions available at MONA) or waiting 79 years for the crypto crew to cash in.

considering the whole thing is produced by cilvaringz, id bet anything the tracks to be average to sub. dude does have some dope production credits ie raekwon shaolin vs wutang album for example. but overall dude isnt worth millions of dollars of hype. bronze nazareth is a much more accomplished wu-associated producer and much closer to the &#x27;sound&#x27; and still probably uses public transit. (school for the blindman album for example)<p>after all is it a real wu-tang album if it isnt produced by RZA?

Hopefully Shkreli nuts up, chances some more jail time, and releases his copy so these crypto freaks get some amount less than they would&#x27;ve had it not been free. I know the article says they&#x27;re &quot;in talks&quot; with the artists but I don&#x27;t believe for a second that the people who actually did the work will get what they deserve for having made it, or even close to what these vampires will get for shitting on the original point of the album.

Last weekend, had a listening event at the Angel Orensanz Foundation, where they took the original photos for the 36th Chambers album release. Was a cool experience.

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<i>the most mysterious and expensive album of all time was announced by the</i> <i>Wu-Tang Clan as a protest against the devaluation of creativity in the age of the internet</i><p>In regards to a top-earning artist with a secure position, &quot;devaluation&quot; here sounds a lot like &quot;demonetization&quot;.<p>So was WTC protesting how the internet negatively impacted gatekeeping and artist anointing - and how the internet allows more small artists to get a foothold?

79y 28d 14h 09m 03s<p>i think i can hold out<p>wonder what format it&#x27;s going to be encoded as at that time

The other guy used to play it on his livestreams often. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s on soulseek in some form.

The crypto leaderboard makes me not trust the site to pay $1. It is also a complete unknown if the current owner will remain the owner long enough to make good on this.<p>I’ve found everything about this album frustrating and unpleasant. At this point, I don’t think there will be anyway for it to not be a disappointment.

If the owner were not allowed to make backup copies, would it have been better to release that album as a set of vinyl records instead of 2 CDs? I am just wondering if an analog medium would be more likely to remain useful after ~80 years of physical degradation compared to digital discs.

Flagged as the link seems to be some kind of Ethereum leaderboard and nothing to do with the claimed title.

Shkreli actually tried to upload the album to what.cd. They didn’t accept him as a member.

Shkreli has actually sent the album to various people. He used to used to send it to any girl who asked for it back in the day. It&#x27;s not that exclusive. Also according to Martin, now that he has sold the album, the album is mediocre.

Can I pay not to have to hear it?