The Wu-Tang Plan: Can collector culture help artists strike gold?

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Virgin) The technology behind the secret album is behind the doors of the abstruse cyber tomb "EZCLZIV". claiming to be the world's first private music service. But the question begs; why so secretive? According to the website, the argument seems to be that music is being under-valued in a mass produced market.

"By adopting a 400 year old Renaissance-style approach to music, offering it as a commissioned commodity and allowing it to take a similar trajectory from creation to exhibition to sale, as any other contemporary art piece, we hope to inspire and intensify urgent debates about the future of music. " the website ominously explains.

The way fans will be able to listen to the ultra-exclusive work, which involves contributions from original Wu-Tang members, the album will rest in a special exhibit, with visitors passing through a ruthlessly heavy security and being able to listen to the whole 128 minutes through headphones provided. The tickets plan to cost around $30 - $50.

"While we fully embrace the advancements in music technology, we feel it has contributed to the devaluation of music as an art form," the statement on the website added. "By taking this step, we hope to re-enforce the weight that music once carried alongside a painting or a sculpture."

That'll be the day - The Quarry Men
The Liverpool quartet's body of work is so expansive, it isn't surprising a few rarities are still buried underneath the mainframe of Beatles culture, but it is in fact the The Quarry Men, the skiffle-rock fetus that would eventually grow into the Liverpool quartet that holds one of the most expensive records of all time - a simple Buddy Holly cover, but one of the first recorded moments of The Beatles making music.

Ooh, sounds pretty special - might you get a copy of that? Well, if you have £200,000 to spare, be our guest!