{"id":6473,"date":"2026-07-16T08:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T09:05:14","slug":"the-crazy-story-of-the-worlds-rarest-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/the-crazy-story-of-the-worlds-rarest-album\/","title":{"rendered":"The crazy story of the world&#8217;s rarest album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Throughout history, countless artists\u2014from <a href=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/the-long-fight-of-neil-young-and-bjork-against-music-streaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bj\u00f6rk<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/taylor-swifts-war-against-music-streaming-and-its-consequences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/james-blake-wants-to-change-the-music-streaming-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Blake<\/a> to Neil Young, and many others\u2014have rebelled against the overwhelming dominance of streaming. But one legendary group went further than all of them. And took a more radical approach. <strong>Here&#8217;s the crazy story of the world&#8217;s rarest album.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Design-sans-titre-9.png\" alt=\"The crazy story of the rarest album in the world\" class=\"wp-image-6483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Design-sans-titre-9.png 800w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Design-sans-titre-9-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Design-sans-titre-9-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re telling you the whole story!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-yoast-seo-estimated-reading-time yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-icon=\"clock\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.1em\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M12 8v4l3 3m6-3a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__spacer\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1em\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time: <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">12<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f3f0fa;border-left:4px solid #9373d8;padding:16px 20px;border-radius:6px;margin-bottom:32px;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;\">\n  <h2 style=\"margin:0 0 12px 0;font-size:14px;font-weight:600;color:#9373d8;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.5px;\">Key takeaways<\/h2>\n  <ul style=\"margin:0 0 16px 0 !important;padding:0 0 0 18px !important;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;color:#9373d8;\">\n    <li style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0 !important;padding:0 !important;\"><span style=\"color:#32373c;\"><em>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em> was created over six years by the Wu-Tang Clan and producer Cilvaringz, with the ambition of turning a hip-hop album into a unique work of art rather than a mass-market product.<\/span><\/li>\n    <li style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0 !important;padding:0 !important;\"><span style=\"color:#32373c;\">To protest the rise of music streaming and digital commodification, Wu-Tang Clan released only one physical copy of <em>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em>, making it the rarest album in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n    <li style=\"margin:0 0 8px 0 !important;padding:0 !important;\"><span style=\"color:#32373c;\">The album gained worldwide notoriety after Martin Shkreli purchased it for $2 million in 2015, before U.S. authorities seized it and PleasrDAO later acquired it for $4 million in cryptocurrency.<\/span><\/li>\n    <li style=\"margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;\"><span style=\"color:#32373c;\">Despite limited public listening sessions and ongoing legal battles, a contract prevents <em>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em> from entering the public domain until 2103, ensuring its legend continues for generations.<\/span><\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n  <p style=\"margin:0;font-size:12px;color:#666;font-style:italic;\">AI-generated summary<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-crazy-story-of-the-world-s-rarest-album-a-bit-of-background\">The crazy story of the world&#8217;s rarest album &#8211; A bit of background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the late 2000s. And one of the most important groups in the history of hip-hop culture\u2014and music in general\u2014was working on a new album. Years after the record that introduced them to the mainstream, <em>Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)<\/em> (1993), <strong>the Wu-Tang Clan had nothing left to prove.<\/strong><br>Their music, built on obscure samples and kung-fu tributes; their rhymes, at once technical and brutal; and their innovative production\u2014which introduced a fresh musical aesthetic\u2014<strong>had propelled them into the ranks of legendary artists<\/strong>. The kind of artists whose legacy never fades, and who inspire countless books, documentaries, series, and films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6f37ade224763a00ac339e63f958b0a1.jpg\" alt=\"The crazy story of the rarest album in the world\" class=\"wp-image-6485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6f37ade224763a00ac339e63f958b0a1.jpg 736w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6f37ade224763a00ac339e63f958b0a1-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this would indeed happen for the Wu-Tang Clan and its many members\u2014most of whom boasted successful solo careers with classic albums of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their portrayal of a daily life defined by violence, racism, and exclusion transported a generation to the gritty streets of New York&#8217;s boroughs, while their razor-sharp voices\u2014sometimes tinged with madness\u2014captivated millions. <strong>But for the moment, it was time to get back to work.<\/strong> And to cement their legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-controversies\">Controversies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It took nearly six years to complete what would become <em>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em>. The album&#8217;s creation was unusual. <strong>The rappers recorded songs without realizing they would eventually form a new album<\/strong>. Or that this album would become a new milestone in the Wu-Tang discography.<br>The group&#8217;s sonic architect, RZA, steered the sessions, yet the process remained mysterious and opaque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/method-man-exclusive-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In a 2024 interview with <em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>, Method Man\u2014one of the group&#8217;s leaders\u2014spoke about the circumstances of its creation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was some circus spectacle. I never really spoke to RZA about it; it&#8217;s an uncomfortable subject to most of the guys, so we don&#8217;t really discuss it too much [\u2026] It was never supposed to be a Wu-Tang album. We were recording and being paid to do a certain number of records by a guy whose name I don&#8217;t want to mention [\u2026] He took all these verses \u2014 some of them were old verses \u2014 and put them altogether into a compilation of Wu-Tang songs and marketed it as a Wu-Tang album, and a single copy of a Wu-Tang album.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty-one songs were recorded, mixed, and assembled. <strong>One man played a particularly active role in the process: Cilvaringz, an RZA prot\u00e9g\u00e9<\/strong>. He was not an original member of the group. And both fellow members of the collective and fans viewed him with suspicion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rolling-Stone-1-1024x573.png\" alt=\"The crazy story of the rarest album in the world\" class=\"wp-image-6486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rolling-Stone-1-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rolling-Stone-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rolling-Stone-1-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Rolling-Stone-1.png 1425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Rolling Stone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With good reason. Some members of Wu-Tang clashed with him after the album&#8217;s release, <strong>and he became the source of numerous internal conflicts that nearly brought the group to its demise<\/strong>. Matters reached a point where Method Man refuses to even utter his name in public today. Cilvaringz, a native of the Netherlands, had dreamed of joining Wu-Tang since childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through sheer perseverance, he became the collective&#8217;s first international signing. He even managed RZA&#8217;s first international tour and opened for various Wu members. He also planted ideas in his mentor&#8217;s mind. <strong>Such as producing an album that could be sold to a single buyer for millions of dollars.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-revolution\">Revolution<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The production was largely the work of Cilvaringz, who composed everything from Marrakech in direct collaboration with RZA. <strong>The goal was to replicate the group&#8217;s raw, unpolished sound from the early 90s as a tribute to that golden era.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2015, with streaming taking the industry by storm and upending the power dynamics between artists and platforms, RZA, Raekwon, and the others had no intention of making the album available via streaming services. <strong>They refused to play by these new rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-decran-2026-06-25-125510-1024x569.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-decran-2026-06-25-125510-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-decran-2026-06-25-125510-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-decran-2026-06-25-125510-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Capture-decran-2026-06-25-125510.png 1376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, RZA and Cilvaringz decided to release only one single copy of the album\u2014in physical format. It would be the only copy in existence, available nowhere else. Just one copy for the entire world. <strong>You don&#8217;t need to be a math genius to realize that this makes it the rarest album on the planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, RZA added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Mass replication has fundamentally changed the way we view a piece of recorded music, while digital universality and vanishing physicality have broken our emotional bond with a piece of music as an artwork and a deeply personal treasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Producer RZA even <strong>compared it to a Picasso painting or an artifact from Egyptian civilization<\/strong>. While clearly an exaggeration, this illustrates the thinking behind the album and shows just how determined the Wu&#8217;s architect was to create a unique object able to stand the test of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-real-piece-of-art\">A real piece of art<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the album itself, <strong>the package includes a 174-page booklet featuring lyrics and an anecdote about each song<\/strong>. As a bonus, a pair of speakers is included in the box set. The box containing these items is made of silver and set with what appear to be precious stones. It resembles an ancient treasure\u2014a relic passed down through generations that no one dares to open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"547\" height=\"805\" src=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Griffin-Lotz-for-Rolling-Stone.png\" alt=\"The crazy story of the rarest album in the world\" class=\"wp-image-6490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Griffin-Lotz-for-Rolling-Stone.png 547w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Griffin-Lotz-for-Rolling-Stone-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Griffin Lotz for Rolling Stone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly before the album went up for auction, <strong>150 people were allowed to listen to a thirteen-minute excerpt during a session in Queens, New York<\/strong>. This stoked excitement as rumors began to swirl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some claimed that <em>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em> <strong>could not be heard by the general public until 2103<\/strong>, and that the winning bidder would be contractually bound to this restriction. It was true. And an unprecedented move in music history, only heightening the album&#8217;s mystique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-crazy-story-of-the-world-s-rarest-album-a-pharma-bro-enters-the-scene\">The crazy story of the world&#8217;s rarest album &#8211; A &#8220;pharma bro&#8221; enters the scene&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, Martin Shkreli, a controversial pharmaceutical businessman, <strong>bought the album for $2 million. Two. Million. Dollars.<\/strong> For a music album. It was a staggering sum that generated negative publicity for the group, as Shkreli was far from universally admired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the opposite was true. Various scandals dogged him and even ostracized him from certain circles. <strong>Worse still, he earned the title of &#8220;the most hated man in America&#8221;<\/strong> \u200b\u200bafter being accused of hiking the price of an HIV medication by 5,500 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, when RZA first met him, he seemed sincere, honest, and upright\u2014and genuinely interested in Wu-Tang&#8217;s music. <strong>The deal was struck quickly, but things soon turned sour. <\/strong>Shkreli revealed his true colors: those of a dishonest, volatile, hot-tempered, and manipulative man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c67db6cc35b182174de01d910a58c30e.jpg\" alt=\"The crazy story of the rarest album in the world\" class=\"wp-image-6491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c67db6cc35b182174de01d910a58c30e.jpg 640w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c67db6cc35b182174de01d910a58c30e-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To make matters worse, after purchasing it, he threatened to remove all contributions by one of the rappers, Ghostface Killah, from the album\u2014or to destroy it outright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Following Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 election, Martin played excerpts from the album to celebrate the new U.S. President<\/strong>, before promising to host a listening event and then backtracking on that decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Less than two years after buying it in 2017, he decided to sell the album, simply writing on his Facebook account: &#8220;I am selling the Wu-Tang Clan album. Fuck Wu-Tang.&#8221; It was an explicit statement that led to real-world consequences, as the album did indeed end up on eBay, attracting hundreds of bidders. Nobody was able to buy it, but still, the news spread everywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-NY-Times.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-NY-Times.png 590w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-NY-Times-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: The NY Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He defended his actions by claiming he had bought the record to support the Wu-Tang Clan and celebrate their musical legacy,<\/strong> but that he regretted the decision following heated exchanges with one of the collective&#8217;s members. A whim? Undoubtedly. And yet another chapter in an increasingly bizarre saga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-crazy-story-of-the-world-s-rarest-album-everything-falls-apart\">The crazy story of the world&#8217;s rarest album &#8211; Everything falls apart<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 2021, there was a dramatic turn of events: <strong><em>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em> was seized by the U.S. Department of Justice<\/strong>. The record was among the assets involved in a $7.3 million fraud case against Martin Shkreli, its owner at the time. The album had remained in the hands of a single man for six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During that time, there were no leaks\u2014nothing. Not a single track surfaced, save for a few snippets shared online that no one could verify as actually belonging to the album. <strong>The mystery remained intact. RZA and Cilvaringz feared the album might be auctioned off without regard for the conditions of its creation or the legal constraints they had imposed<\/strong>. Would government ownership strip them of the rights to something they had spent so long building?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly thereafter, another twist occurred. Jason Leopold, a journalist at Bloomberg, spent months investigating this larger-than-life story. He revealed that <strong>PleasrDAO\u2014a firm specializing in digital art and cryptocurrency\u2014had purchased <em>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em> for $4 million in cryptocurrency.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GP5LSP5W0AAsDL4-1-783x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The crazy story of the rarest album in the world\" class=\"wp-image-6484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GP5LSP5W0AAsDL4-1-783x1024.jpg 783w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GP5LSP5W0AAsDL4-1-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GP5LSP5W0AAsDL4-1-768x1005.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GP5LSP5W0AAsDL4-1-1174x1536.jpg 1174w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GP5LSP5W0AAsDL4-1-1566x2048.jpg 1566w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GP5LSP5W0AAsDL4-1-scaled.jpg 1957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal was cryptic and involved several entities, including one that wishes to remain anonymous. It only adds to the mystery surrounding the world&#8217;s most mysterious album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explaining its purchase, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/article\/2024\/may\/28\/wu-tang-clan-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin-album-played-first-time-tasmania-mona-martin-shkreli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PleasrDAO states<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Ten years ago, the Wu-Tang Clan had a bold vision to make a single copy album as a work of fine art. To &#8216;put it in an art gallery \u2026 make music become a living piece like a Mona Lisa or a scepter from Egypt [\u2026] With this single work of art, the Wu-Tang Clan intended to redefine the meaning of music ownership and value in a world of digital streaming and commodification of music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/20\/arts\/music\/wu-tang-clan-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In an interview with <em>The New Yorker<\/em><\/a>, Jamis Johnson, one of the company&#8217;s leaders, adds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This album, at its inception, was a kind of protest against rent-seeking middlemen, people who are taking a cut away from the artist [\u2026] very much shares that same ethos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The company&#8217;s goal is to transform the physical object into a digital product.<\/strong> This is arguably a way to reverse the narrative\u2014or at least extend it\u2014serving as a metaphor for the evolution of our societies and of music itself, moving from the physical to the digital. But does this respect RZA&#8217;s vision?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-crazy-story-of-the-world-s-rarest-album-closer-and-closer\">The crazy story of the world&#8217;s rarest album &#8211; Closer and closer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To offer fans shares in the form of NFTs, <strong>PleasrDAO invited them to listen to a five-minute excerpt from the album for one dollar in cryptocurrency<\/strong>. It was a way to gradually bring the album to the fans and extend the <em>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em> experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But beyond that\u2014nothing else. There were no major leaks, nor was the album made available in its entirety. The collective maintains that the album remains locked in a vault somewhere in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SBS-News.png\" alt=\"The crazy story of the rarest album in the world\" class=\"wp-image-6489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SBS-News.png 992w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SBS-News-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/soundiiz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/SBS-News-768x434.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: SBS News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, in June 2024, another twist. It was announced that excerpts from the album would be played at an Australian art museum for about ten days, alongside a display of the album&#8217;s only copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of Mona\u2014the museum in question\u2014explained the exhibition this way: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Every once in a while, an object on this planet possesses mystical properties that transcend its material circumstances [\u2026] <em>Once Upon a Time in Shaolin<\/em> is more than just an album, so when I was thinking about status, and what a transcendent namedrop could be, I knew I had to get it into this exhibition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Following these listening sessions, many fans and journalists shared their impressions. 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