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the timeslots for the twice-a-day listening sessions have been
snapped up and there are still about 5,000 people on the waiting
list, said Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art, which will
showcase the album from June 15 to 24.
"The Wu Tang album captures people's imaginations, it's a very
important piece of pop culture and it's an incredible work of
art," Jarrod Rawlins, director of curatorial affairs at MONA,
said at a briefing.
"The listening events have, all of the free allocated tickets
are done, there's 5000 people still on the waiting list," said
Rawlins, adding that the museum cannot open up any more slots.
The album, with just one physical copy in the world, was bought
by the convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli in 2015
for $2 million.
Shkreli gave it up to partially satisfy a $7.4 million
forfeiture order after his 2017 conviction for defrauding hedge
fund investors and scheming to defraud investors in a drugmaker.
It is now owned by non-fungible token collectors PleasrDAO who
purchased the album for $4 million from the U.S. government.
PleasrDao is also suing Shkreli for making copies of the album
and releasing the music to the public.
(Reporting by Cordelia Hsu and Stella Qiu; Editing by Stephen
Coates)
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