- The new and possibly final Wu-Tang album is more than two hours long. It features 31 tracks, all eight living MCs, most if not all Wu-Tang affiliates (Sunz of Man, Redman, Cher), sirens, bombs, samples from kung fu cinema, and original skits. And it took more than two years to produce, mostly because eighty percent of its vocals were re-recorded to capture the intensity of early Wu-Tang records. The album’s title: Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
Here is some additional info: the CD is housed within two nickel-silver boxes that were hand-carved by a Moroccan artist and his team of ten workers over three months; there is only one physical copy of the album in existence; all digital versions have been destroyed; and bidding starts at $5 million. And we learned yesterday that Once Upon a Time in Shaolin will remain under copyright until 2103 — that’s 88 years.
So if you didn’t happen to be at MoMA PS1 last evening — among a smattering of journalists, high-bidders, and Power 105 contest winners — you will likely never experience the entire album, or even the 13-minute sample heard by Flavorwire. Unless, that is, Shaolin’s future owner decides to distribute it for free — an unlikely scenario.
This is a great exercise in performance art for those not used to it. Selling art by deceiving the public about the paucity of reproduction.
Clearly the author has no idea how audio production works, or possibly how digital access works. No musician works that hard on a recorded production then deletes the masters on purpose. No one is going to give a rat's ass about the album in 88 years. It'll sit for a few months, then a "commemorative release" will somehow become available.
You'll never catch me trash-talking Bobby Digital. Thus I must assume this ploy of his has yet to finish.
https://www.whatinterviewprep.com/ -- if invites are currently open, which I think they are. I've heard the interview is hard, but I disregard that completely. The hardest part is probably getting someone's attention on IRC. Or you can just get an invite from an existing user. I have a bunch. Do you want one? Are you responsible? Do you have good bandwidth and actually want to use the site a lot?
Oh and what country are you in some of them are banned. (I do find it extremely amusing that what uses statistics-based racial profiling and no one has a problem with it. I don't, of course, but I'd expect someone to.)
Can't hurt, but no. If you do need a public tracker for anything, VPNs are advisable (and most security wonks would say here that they're advisable anyway and the best one costs like 35$ a year). Variety of subreddits with great info on this stuff.
However, I don't bother at the moment, and private trackers take care of that thing for the most part. They also aren't the target of the big anti-piracy orgs -- neat AMA a while back that I can't find from someone who had worked at one, said they mostly had accounts on all the private trackers, used them to keep an eye out for scene releases and stuff that might spread to TPB etc. Really interesting.
Germany's fine.