In December, controversial pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli paid millions for Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. Shkreli has since been arrested on charges of securities fraud, and is out on bail.
Shkreli is the subject of a new profile at Vice. Allie Conti reports: "Shkreli says he vacillates between wanting to destroy the record and dreaming of installing it in some remote place so that people have to make a spiritual quest to listen."
"I'm not just the heel of the music world," he told Vice. "I want to be the world's heel." (In pro wrestling, "heels" are bad guys.)
In the piece, Shkreli plays the album in the background while being interviewed by Conti. Speaking to Noisey, Conti offered a brief analysis of what she heard:
One thing's for sure: Destroying the album would be an easy way to make Ghostface Killah even angrier.