Now a few lucky members of the public will be able to listen to it – if they can get to a museum next month on the Australian island of Tasmania. The rare piece of hip-hop history is set to go on display at the Museum of Old and New Art from June 15 to 24, according to the museum. The album will be part of an exhibit that lasts a little over a week with a limited number of free tickets available for curated private listening sessions.
The album was also created in protest of the devaluation of music as an artform in the digital age, RZA said in the interview. Since then, the album has had a history almost as unusual as its release. In 2015, notorious “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli bagged the album for about $2 million – making it the world’s most expensive music album ever sold at the time.