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Culture · 18 d ago

Wu-Tang Clan in concert, 2026

A podcast lets listeners hear snippets of Wu-Tang Clan's one-copy album

The podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out has published two snippets of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, recorded at a listening party where Wu-Tang member Method Man heard the album for the first time.

One copy, three owners

  1. 2015

    Martin Shkreli buys the only copy at auction

  2. After

    Shkreli forfeits the album to the US government

  3. 2021

    The government sells it to the crypto collective PleasrDAO

Martin Shkreli bought the only copy at auction in 2015 and later forfeited it to the US government, which sold it in 2021 to the crypto art collective PleasrDAO.

Earliest commercial release

2103 year

The album cannot be released commercially until 2103.