The Internet's Least Favorite Pharma Guy Just Spent $2 Million on a Secret Wu-Tang Album

Martin Shkreli, famous for his ridiculous AIDS drug price hike, has gone and made himself look like a huge twat again by buying a secret Wu-Tang Clan album for $2 million.

The terms of the sale prevent him from releasing the album for profit for 88 years, just long enough for most of us to never hear it unless he decides to give it away for free (yeah, right). Wu-Tang made only one copy of the album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, and then sold it off at auction to scrub-lord Shkreli, who announced his purchase with this tweet:



He became convinced that he should buy the album when the auctioneer suggested doing so would provide him "the opportunity to rub shoulders with celebrities and rappers who would want to hear it." What a guy. Apparently he plans to proposition more artists about secret private albums, and is taking suggestions on who he should ask.



Once Upon a Time in Shaolin will join Shkreli's eclectic collection of weird rich people stuff, which includes Kurt Cobain's credit card. Apparently he likes to whip it out at restaurants when he gets the bill in order to get a rise out of people. Who knows what he'll do with his latest buy.