How I bought the Kings of Leon album NFT, and how you can too

Earlier this month Kings of Leon made history as the first band to release an album as an NFT. I think this will quickly move from a historic event to the norm, but Kings of Leon was the first and I’m pretty excited to have been one of the first ~1,600 people to get the album NFT.

Which leads me to the question I got from just about everyone I told about it. “What the heck do you get in an NFT of an album?” Often followed by, “I’m so confused about how the heck to buy this?”

One good friend of mine, who is actually a software developer here in SF asked if I could hop on a Zoom to walk him through it. When I was done he said, “yikes, that’s confusing!” So I figured, if he was confused, probably a lot of other people are confused and it might be helpful to walk through the process.

So if you’ve been scratching your head wondering how to buy the Kings of Leon album NFT, or if you’re still on step one wondering, what the heck is the Kings of Leon album NFT, read on.

Okay, so before I dive into the details I want to make sure that if you’re reading this, you know what an NFT is. If you don’t I’d recommend reading this article about NFTs in the New York Times.

Now that we got that out of the way I’m going to assume if you’re still reading, you know what an NFT is. So let’s answer the first question you might have – what do you get when you buy the Kings of Leon album NFT?