In 2015 rap collective Wu-Tang Clan released only one copy of the groupās seventh album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, as a CD with no option to download it. The intention was to spark debate about the value and appreciation of music as art. The album was sold for $2 million to pharmaceuticals executive Martin Shkreli, who had gained notoriety for buying the rights to a drug used by AIDS and transplant patients and raising the price from $13.50 to $750 per pill.
After learning that Shkreli had bought the album, Wu-Tang donated a significant portion of the proceeds to charity. In 2018 the album was seized by the United States government after Shkreli had been convicted of fraud the previous year, and in 2021 the album was purchased by a collective called PleasrDAO, which seeks to acquire significant items of digital culture.