Must be nice.
A greedy Wall Street pharmaceutical executive named Martin Shkreli is already in the news for hiking up the price on a drug to used to treat a life threatening disease that affects people with HIV/Aids.
He’ll really be hated after he reportedly spent $2 million on a secret Wu Tang Clan album.
You’ll recall the Wu’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” was recently sold to an anonymous buyer, and now Bloomberg says Shkreli is the guy who pulled the trigger — dropping $2 million to snatch up the album.
32-year-old Shkreli is the hedge fund manager and pharmaceutical exec who made headlines earlier this year for jacking up the price on a cancer/AIDS medication … from $13.50 to $750 per pill.
Shkreli, who grew up in Brooklyn, said he loves the Wu-Tang classic “C.R.E.A.M.” … naturally. Unbelievably, he also says he hasn’t listened to ‘Shaolin’ yet! He says, “I could be convinced to listen to it earlier if Taylor Swift wants to hear it or something like that” … but otherwise he’s saving it for a rainy day.
As part of the Wu-Tang purchase, Shkreli has to keep the music under wraps for 88 years — so, he’s gonna die with it. And you can start pouring the haterade now because he’s already bragging about his next potential purchase.
Poll suggestions: which artist should I now approach to buy my next private album from?
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) December 9, 2015