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Wu-Tang Clan performs at Riot Fest on Sept. 20, 2015 in Toronto, Canada.Isaiah Trickey—2015 Isaiah Trickey  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Dec 9, 2015 3:49 PM UTC Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, became the subject of widespread ire back in September when it was reported that his company raised the cost of Daraprim, a drug used by many AIDS patients, [from $13.50 to $750 per pill ](http://time.com/4045668/daraprim-price-cut/)practically overnight. (Following a swift backlash, which included the BBC suggesting he was the [“Most Hated Man in America,”](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34331761) Shkreli vowed to reduce the price.) Now, _Bloomberg Businessweek_ reports that the 32-year-old is [the owner of the sole copy of the Wu-Tang Clan’s album _Once Upon a Time in Shaolin_](http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan-album/), which was auctioned off by the rap group to the highest bidder. _Shaolin_ is a 31-track album that comes with a hand-carved box and a companion book of 174 pages of liner notes. All surviving members of the group worked on the record, which was stored in a Moroccan hotel vault, but only a few people have actually heard it in its entirety. Shkreli, who [reportedly paid around $2 million for it](http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan-album/), isn’t one of them. “I could be convinced to listen to it earlier if Taylor Swift wants to hear it or something like that,” he told the magazine, declining to say how much he paid for it. “But for now, I think I’m going to kind of save it for a rainy day.” The Wu-Tang Clan did not seem excited about the buyer’s identity. “The sale of _Once Upon a Time in Shaolin_ was agreed upon in May, well before Martin Skhreli’s \[sic\] business practices came to light,” they told Bloomberg in a statement. “We decided to give a significant portion of the proceeds to charity.” \[[_Bloomberg_](http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan-album/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4142634/martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4142634/martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan/"},"headline":"Price-Gouging Pharma Exec Owns Sole Copy of New Wu-Tang Clan Album","datePublished":"2015-12-09T15:49:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:13:49.108Z","description":"He reportedly paid around $2 million for it","url":"https://time.com/4142634/martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan/","keywords":["Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8d374f202a06d71/6988749c0a4a22125e9c767a/wu-tang-clan-album.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8d374f202a06d71/6988749c0a4a22125e9c767a/wu-tang-clan-album.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"wu-tang-clan-album","caption":"Wu-Tang Clan album buyer is Martin Shkreli of Turing Pharmaceuticals","creditText":"Isaiah Trickey—2015 Isaiah Trickey","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4142634/martin-shkreli-wu-tang-clan/","name":"Price-Gouging Pharma Exec Owns Sole Copy of New Wu-Tang Clan Album"}}]}] ```