The Wu-Tang Clan’s one-of-a-kind 2015 album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” has found a new home in the world of digital art.
The album, first purchased by infamous pharma executive Martin Shkreli, then repossessed by the U.S. government after Shkreli’s conviction for securities fraud, is now in the hands of NFT investment collective PleasrDAO. The group revealed itself this morning as the anonymous entity that purchased the album from the federal government in July for the hefty price tag of $4 million.
The purchase falls in line with the DAO’s previous acquisitions. PleasrDAO, a band of seventy-odd NFT art collectors first brought together in March by their shared admiration for the work of digital artist pplpleasr, has since focused on acquisitions that reflect values of transparency and anti-establishment activism. For instance, they bought Edward Snowden’s NFT in April for $5.4 million. The Wu-Tang album, which exists only as two hard-copy CDs, was widely received as a p
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