In December, controversial pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli paid millions for Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Shkreli has since been arrested on charges of securities fraud, and is out on bail.
Shkreli is the subject of a new profile at Vice. Allie Conti reports: "Shkreli says he vacillates between wanting to destroy the record and dreaming of installing it in some remote place so that people have to make a spiritual quest to listen."
"I'm not just the heel of the music world," he told Vice. "I want to be the world's heel." (In pro wrestling, "heels" are bad guys.)
In the piece, Shkreli plays the album in the background while being interviewed by Conti. Speaking to Noisey, Conti offered a brief analysis of what she heard:
I barely got to hear it, because I was also interviewing him while it was on. From what I heard, it was definitely better than their last album, although I wouldn't say it's worth $2 million necessarily. I really hope Shkreli decides to release it to the public rather than destroy it, which is something he's mulling over right now.
One thing's for sure: Destroying the album would be an easy way to make Ghostface Killah even angrier.
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