You've heard of rare records before, but what Wu-Tang Clan is planning for its stealthy double album, The Wu–Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, is unprecedented. The legendary rap group will sell only one copy, encased in an engraved silver and nickel box. It will be very, very expensive.
It's actually a brilliant plan. When explaining the album to Forbes,
the RZA spared no hyperbole.
"We're about to put out a piece of art
like nobody else has done in the history of [modern] music," the
legendary rapper said. "We're making a single-sale collector's item.
This is like somebody having the scepter of an Egyptian king."