Wutang-SweatshirtBack in the day when we wanted to buy an album, we’d go to a record store and pick up an album there. However as time moved on, the way we consumed music changed. We started frequenting record stores less and relied on digital purchases and downloads to consume our music, but even then that is changing.

Well perhaps it’s a marketing gimmick, or perhaps it could be a new medium of selling music, but hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan has recently released their new album, and one of the ways to purchase the album would be to buy a specially designed wearable speaker that contains the group’s music in it.

The speakers are built by Boombotix and according to the company’s CEO, the speaker was a customized version of its Boombot speakers and had to be reworked to include flash memory and a file management system to store the album on. Speaking to Billboard, the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA explained how the idea came about.

“I had the idea pop up into my head, for a while, about music being kind of disconnected to us. Of being so digitized and accessible, but yet not tangible. But this thing here, a tangible item, like your old Walkman or your old cassette, or your old record, that’s what this is bringing back.”

It seems that the speakers will be a limited run as only 3,000 of them will be sold at $79.99 each where it will be made available in November ahead of the group’s album release, but what do you guys think of this new method of distributing music?

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