Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ available at Australian Museum: NPR

From left, Wu-Tang Clan members RZA, Ghostface Killah, director Sacha Jenkins and Wu-Tang Clan members U-God, Cappadonna and Masta Killa pose at the premiere of “Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men” during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on January 28, 2019 in Park City, Utah.

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After years of trading hands between owners, the Wu-Tang Clan’s elusive seventh album will finally be available to some fans.

The hip-hop group Once upon a time in Shaolin will be part of an upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Old and New and Art in Tasmania, Australia. The museum is playing just a few of the songs during free private listening events, which visitors can book in 30-minute increments, starting Thursday.

Listening events will take place June 15-24. But people who want a chance to get tickets will have to travel. Tickets will be released at 10 a.m. local time in Tasmania on Thursday, the museum said.

The album, which has 31 tracks, was put up for auction in 2015 and was reportedly bought for $2 million by Martin Shkreli, who jacked up the price of a life-saving prescription by 5,000 percent and ended up serving seven years prison for securities fraud. Shkreli confiscated the album to the US government in 2018, who sold it to an anonymous buyer for an undisclosed amount in 2021.

The exhibit also features personalities, cultural imprints and businesses, such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, McDonald’s, Madonna and Jimi Hendrix.