[HN Gopher] Pay $1 to Hear Wu-Tang Clan's Secret Album (Eventually)
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Pay $1 to Hear Wu-Tang Clan's Secret Album (Eventually)
Author : throwawaycities
Score : 43 points
Date : 2024-06-13 19:49 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| johnsutor wrote:
| Last weekend, had a listening event at the Angel Orensanz
| Foundation, where they took the original photos for the 36th
| Chambers album release. Was a cool experience.
| ralferoo wrote:
| Flagged as the link seems to be some kind of Ethereum leaderboard
| and nothing to do with the claimed title.
| paweladamczuk wrote:
| I think the story behind this page is interesting.
| throwawaycities wrote:
| Thanks, I emailed Dang to update the url to the "lore" subpage.
|
| The linked website is the official site of the Album owner. The
| homepage simply shows a countdown clock to the release date of
| the album originally scheduled for 2103, but the release
| date/clock is being reduced in real-time based on album
| purchases.
|
| This Album is the highest selling album of all-time, it only
| had 1 physical copy made, and the ownership history is just as
| interesting. For more info on the Album here is the Wikipedia
| article:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin
| dang wrote:
| We've changed the URL from https://www.thealbum.com/ to the
| NYT article about it, which has more background and will
| hopefully be more interesting.
| qaz_plm wrote:
| For the updated NYT URL - https://archive.ph/Sfxon
| jareklupinski wrote:
| 79y 28d 14h 09m 03s
|
| i think i can hold out
|
| wonder what format it's going to be encoded as at that time
| justinator wrote:
| Gives a new meaning to, "Wu-Tang is for the (grand)children"
| ToucanLoucan wrote:
| I almost definitely can't, and would love to hear it, but I'm
| not giving one red cent to fucking crypto grifters.
| WarOnPrivacy wrote:
| _the most mysterious and expensive album of all time was
| announced by the_ _Wu-Tang Clan as a protest against the
| devaluation of creativity in the age of the internet_
|
| In regards to a top-earning artist with a secure position,
| "devaluation" here sounds a lot like "demonetization".
|
| So was WTC protesting how the internet negatively impacted
| gatekeeping and artist anointing - and how the internet allows
| more small artists to get a foothold?
| throwawaycities wrote:
| I posted because the entire thing is so fascinating from
| distribution, legal rights, to the unimaginable chain of
| custody/ownership (which included the Department of Justice who
| auctioned it to the current owner).
|
| In addition to what you quoted it is said it was aLeo inspired
| by musical patronage in the Renaissance. I'm sure there is some
| truth to all of the above but also just marketing.
|
| It originally sold at auction for $2M, and I would imagine/hope
| they could have made multiples that through a standard release.
| Simon_ORourke wrote:
| Can I pay not to have to hear it?
| krapp wrote:
| You don't have to, you can just... not listen to it, but I'm
| sure someone would be happy to take your money.
| pimlottc wrote:
| It would actually be hilarious if you could also pay $1 to
| delay the release, and then it became a huge tug of war between
| internet brigades...
| jcrash wrote:
| The other guy used to play it on his livestreams often. I'm sure
| it's on soulseek in some form.
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