The AIDS Medicine Guy Bought the Sole Wu Tang Album

Martin Shkreli is that freaky looking Gordon Gecko disciple who bought the company that makes a key The AIDS drug and immediately raised the price several hundred percent. It’s unclear if he did this just because he owned it and could, or because he’s made his money shorting the market and the minute the political backlash and price control speeches ensued from his announcement, pharmaceutical stocks plummeted. This guy looks like a mildly retarded pedo villain, but he’s probably smarter than you.

Shkreli is the new owner of the sole copy of the Wu-Tang Clans last album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. For some reason likely involving money, Wu-Tang announced  last year that some living members were reassembling to put together an album that would be produced in one lone copy and sold to the highest bidder. That highest anon buyer turned out to be Shkreli, for $2 million. Or one million dollars more than the cost of a CD before Napster came along. RZA wrote a letter letting everybody know that the guy bought the album on auction before they knew he was The AIDS medicine shark. You’d certainly only expect respectable bidders in a multi-million dollar auction for a hastily produced partial Wu-Tang Clan album.

Shkreli is now fucking with people again, saying he’s not even listened to the album. He might, he might not. He’s mentioned perhaps letting you watch him listen to it on YouTube livestream (here’s the stream, of his desk chair). This guy’s a dick genius. He’s fucking with everybody. Get angry, the Sith Lord feeds off your hate. Maybe you’ll get your life saving medicine, maybe not. Hush now, Ghostface Killah is laying down some wicked rhymes. I know you can’t hear it. I win again.