Martin Shkreli: Kanye must take offer to record label board
Anticipation and Twitter limitations are killing everyone's favorite smarmy former pharma-bro, Martin Shkreli.
See, he doesn't know if Kanye West saw his offer to buy his new album, The Life of Pablo, for $10 million and was like ...
Or if it's because Twitter puts a cap on the number of DMs (direct messages) that users can send per day.
We checked, Martin, and the answer is yes, they do.
The limit is 1,000 DMs per day. Who sends that many?!?
If Shkreli is indeed sending a thousand direct messages a day, that indicates attorney Benjamin Brafman's advice to "zip it" went in one ear and out the other.
In any event, the offer is for $10 million, five times what he paid for Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.
Under the terms of the offer, Kanye would release the album to him and him alone. But it's not as exclusive as it when he made the offer because Kanye's since played it for the public and it's streamed on Tidal.
But if we were Kanye and entertaining the offer, we'd ask for a cashier's check. Shkreli, 32, is out on $5 million bond after his fraud arrest in December, to which he pleaded innocent. But much of his estimated $45 million worth maybe be tied up in stock from one of his old companies, which is now under bankruptcy protection. The tax man is after him as well — the IRS says he owes $4.6 million while New York State wants him to cough up $2.7 million. (Brafman's law firm issued a "no comment" to USA TODAY regarding the album offer and tax lien estimates.)
Bottom line: Even if Shkreli can afford Pablo, he may have to use it as collateral.
'Ye hasn't responded via social media yet. He was kind of busy Thursday night, what with his album listening party/fashion show and defending that Taylor Swift lyric.
But Shkreli has a plan to make him answer, even if it means delaying the album's release
Because he doesn't have enough people with pitchforks after him already?
