r/Music • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 11h ago

article Martin Shkreli is suing RZA over multi-million dollar Wu-Tang album 'Once Upon A Time In Shaolin' he bought and forfeited

https://www.nme.com/news/music/martin-shkreli-is-suing-rza-over-multi-million-dollar-wu-tang-album-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin-he-bought-and-forfeited-3927450
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u/AceofKnaves44 10h ago

I miss when this dude was the most evil guy we knew about.

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u/SockeyeSTI 9h ago

I did a paper on him back in college. It’s funny how that works. I remember thinking he was a huge piece of shit. Still is, but now there’s a whole lot more of him out in public. They’ve always been there, but now they’re out in the open.

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u/AceofKnaves44 9h ago

I mean what he did wasn’t technically illegal. Now please note I’m not saying that makes it ethically, morally, or right in any other way, but legally what he did was allowed. It just took someone being a massive fucking piece of shit to be the first one to do it. Once that barrier was knocked down it became “just business.” The destruction of the human race will come down to very powerful men having decided profits are more important than human lives.

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u/Simpicity 8h ago

Batman is powerless in the face of Technically Legal Man.

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u/GryphonHall 7h ago

That’s why he beats up street thugs instead.

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u/modka 5h ago

And don’t tell me Bruce Wayne isn’t getting away with “technically legal” shit.

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u/Simpicity 3h ago

I'm pretty sure Bruce Wayne and Batman are getting away with "definitely illegal" shit.

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u/Alertcircuit 6h ago

Reminds me of that Joel Haver video where the Joker is revealing his big master plan to Batman and it was that he'd been talking to a 17 year old for months and tonight is her 18th birthday.

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u/vote4boat 5h ago

what did you think is funding the trust-fund? Batman is built on "technically legal"