(Nadya from Pussy Riot is now a PleasrDAO member.)Īs Once Upon a Time in Shaolin got a new owner, it also gained a new layer of complexity. government before making its way to PleasrDAO, a group with a passion for buying digital collectibles honoring “anti-establishment rebels” - their previous purchases include NFTs connected to Edward Snowden and the Russian band Pussy Riot. Once Upon a Time in Shaolin was subsequently seized by the U.S. The buyer back then was Martin Shkreli, a hedge-fund and pharmaceutical executive who was quickly becoming one of the most reviled men in America. Wu-Tang auctioned off the album, which was both lambasted as an elitist stunt-art hoax and embraced as a shrewd protest against digitization’s erosion of music’s value, for $2 million in 2015. On Wednesday, a group called PleasrDAO revealed that it was ultimately behind the purchase, which cost the collective $4 million.
Marshals is just the latest odd episode in the life of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, which was bought by an anonymous entity in July.
“As you can imagine, the tracks have a lot of colorful language on them, there’s a lot of giggling people who are not hip-hop people listening to this stuff,” Scoolidge says. attorney’s office, and the Department of Justice. Scoolidge had bought a Discman for the occasion, and he popped in the album under the watchful eyes of around 10 members of law enforcement, representatives from the U.S.
The courthouse was hardly an unusual destination for the lawyer, but that day, he had a bizarre assignment: Listen to the lone existing copy of Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin album to determine if the material was still intact. Shipping to: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, Korea, South, Taiwan, Belgium, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Republic of, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Uruguay, Russian FederationĮxcludes: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Bangladesh, Azerbaijan Republic, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Philippines, Laos, Thailand, Micronesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Palau, American Samoa, Niue, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Guam, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Ghana, Djibouti, Cape Verde Islands, Mali, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Saint Helena, Seychelles, Gambia, Liberia, Rwanda, Libya, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon Republic, Lesotho, Mayotte, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Chad, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Senegal, Togo, Morocco, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Western Sahara, Malawi, Comoros, Angola, Algeria, Benin, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Somalia, Egypt, Swaziland, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Niger, Tanzania, Namibia, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Turkey, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Netherlands Antilles, Anguilla, Nicaragua, British Virgin Islands, Haiti, Virgin Islands (U.S.At the end of July, attorney Peter Scoolidge made his way to the Eastern District Courthouse at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn.
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