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This fucking guy. It'd be great to never hear about him again.
His face is so punchable, but I never get to punch it!
never give up, never surrender
Sigh, By Grabthar's hammer
What a savings.
Gotta thundergun your fist right into his face.
He reminds me of a dopier-looking version of Dr Crane from the Dark Knight movies.
You mean Cillian Murphy? I see it, but it feels extremely disrespectful to compare anyone to this parasite
Yeah, but to be fair to Cillian, I was more in mind of the character he portrayed in those movies and not the actor himself.
Shit I'd trade Elon for this fucker any day.
Him and Musk should do a hip hop video from inside of a fiberglass submersible touring the titanic.
Drops a couple mil on an album and rips it to MP3 instead of FLAC. The fuck is wrong with this man?
You have me giggling over here mate. But it's true!
This is one of those truly great moments where you can hate all sides of this. They're all kinda shitty skeezy assholes, so whoever loses is a net win for humanity.
Wu-tang is for the children.
So it goes.
Hmmmm. Best outcome I can think of would be the judge telling the dao to fuck off then putting pharma bro back in prison because.
That article was hard to read because of how smug and douchey Shkrelis quotes are.
Fuck Martin Shkreli. Fuck him in his stupid asshole.
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He’s so deluded in delusion. Trey and Matt should make an episode where he is the only coherent character, and everyone else is speaking his wackadoo nonsense whenever it cuts to his perspective.
Trey and Matt are both libertarian douches who probably think that Shkreli is based.
Stupid idiot bragging about having MP3s to a priceless album. He doesn't even have the FLACs?
Prob had to stuff 128bit recordings up his prison wallet
This should be fun; who will the terminally online hate more, Shkreli or a group of NFT grifters?
Both?
Both is good.
Wu Tang did NFTs? That’s hilarious and sad
Edit: would be a lot funnier if there were Wu Tang NFTs
WuTang didn't make an NFT. They recorded an album that had no public release, and sold the only existing copy to a single buyer like a painting.
This was kind of a slap in the face to their fans and what music is, but this was long before NFTs were a thing.
Who else is betting the album just isn't very good?
Either way it feels like Wu-Tang is on the wrong side of the class war on this one. The fine art comparison is bullshit. At least fine art owned by individuals is often showcased for public viewing because everyone knows that a print, photo, or public exhibition is not the same as owning the original.
I'm sure Wu-Tang thought they were just exploiting the upper class money laundering system for their own gains, but that just makes them court fools, not revolutionaries.
Well they are showcasing it in at least one public exhibition at a gallery this year, so the comparison to fine art is pretty good.
But I definitely agree that it's a shitty move of them, especially with their working class roots. They sold the album for what isn't a great deal of money, $2million, so they either thought it was terrible or they were in a desperate financial situation and needed a quick win. It goes so much against their ethos that fans spread rumours that there was a greater plan where Bill Murray would steal the album back in an elaborate heist and then release it.
I do think that RZA, the group member who led the sale, truly believed in his own bullshit about this being a piece of art but I can see the other group members just having bills to pay and families to feed. Considering they split the money 9-12 ways (depending on the group's configuration at the time) and not including engineers and studio time, I don't know how much each individual member benefited.
They also tried to buy it back from Shkreli, publicly threatened him when they learned what kind of guy he really was and had to donate a lot of the money from the album's sales to charity just to try to wash some of the stink off. So this whole stunt seems to have backfired on them.
PleasrDAO, who purchased it from Shkreli, is some sort of NFT group apparently. And they're suing because they have plans to make money off limited listening events lol
I thought whoever bought it also got the rights to do that?
The suit was filed by PleasrDAO, a digital art collective that purchased the album from Shkreli in 2021 after Shkreli was ordered to fork it over to cover a $7.4 million forfeiture tied to his 2017 fraud conviction. (Shkreli purchased the album for $2 million; PleasrDAO paid double that.) According to the lawsuit, Shkreli violated the terms of both the original purchase agreement and the forfeiture order by allegedly making and retaining a digital copy of the album, playing it during his live streams, and sending it to others.
I don't like seeing anyone sued for music piracy but I'm glad it's him.
IIRC, that was part of the deal buying this and part of what made it so expensive and unique. News article at the time talked at length about the secrecy aspect. Kinda dumb IMO but I understand a super fan wanting to own something like this. The fact that this A hole bought it instead then immediately broke contract...
S-tier scumbag, rarely do you find a more pure specimen of assholery.
If you ever want to feel incredibly angry, watch some interviews with him. He's the kind of guy who would unironically say he's generous and kind because his pharma corpo sells a lifesaving drug for $1,750 a dose while the other corpos all sell it for $2,000+ per dose.
The personification of a Ayn Rand hyper-capitalist, a totally soulless husk. Chatbots from the early 2000's have more heart than him.
Reading the headline with a wuxia background and not knowing that there's a hiphop group that took the literal same name as the classic martials art clan, I was quite confused.
