I previously posted about a Kickstarter campaign called “Once Upon A Time In Shaolin – For Wu Fans, For Wu People,” which hopes to raise enough money to bid on Wu-Tang Clan’s latest release.
The lavishly decorated Wu-Tang album is going on a museum tour before being auctioned to the highest bidder. Wu-Tang says they already have a bid of $5 million.
That’s the problem: the people behind this Kickstarter campaign say they don’t want “some uber rich bastard” keeping the album in some private collection. So far, they’ve raised just $15,829 with 26 days to go. They hope to raise $5 million.
Not exactly a proof of concept, but now a second fan Kickstarter has inexplicably launched. The new campaign is called “Open Wu-Tang” and has the exact same goal. One of the only differences is that “Open” wants to outdo the first campaign by raising $5.5 million.
The people behind “Open Wu-Tang” say: “the [first] attempt to crowd fund the disruptive Wu-Tang will
unfortunately fall short“, so they’ve done the exact same thing over again…? To be fair, they have added a convincing video that says fans drove Wu-Tang to creative this auction by not paying for music:
“Open Wu-Tang” has raised $133.96 ($143 AUD) with 25 days to go.
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Better and related project:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/510343979/destroy-only-copy-of-new-wu-tang-album