Wu-Tang Clan performs on day 3 of weekend 1 at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Sunday, April 14, 2013 in Indio, Calif. The group’s latest, one-of-a-kind album, “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” was recently purchased for millions of dollars. (Zach Cordner/Invision/AP
Martin Shkreli has rightfully taken his share of criticism this year. As you may have heard, the 32-year-old’s drug company Turing Pharmaceuticals of anti-parasitic drug Daraprim, which is used to aid HIV patients’ immune systems, from $13.50 to $750 per pill overnight.
If that wasn’t enough, now Shkreli has incited the ire of Wu Tang Clan fans., he was the undisclosed buyer for the
The album was initially reported to have sold for $5 million, but according to a source close to the deal, it was closer to $2 million. In other words, they practically gave it away.
Needless to say, Shkreli–who reveals in the article his favorite Wu Tang song is literally “C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me”)–doesn’t feel too bad about the Wu Tang proletariat missing out on the group’s latest album:
“At the end of the day,” [Shkreli] says, “they didn’t buy the last album or the one before that, and all they had to pay was $10.”
According to Wu Tang’s the RZA, the group sold the album to Shkreli before his nefarious business dealings transpired.
Read “Young Dirty Bastard,” Bloomberg Business’ feature on the sale of “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” .
