What’s the angle here?

[Scuzi]

I was in the local HMV with my son and saw this on the notice board…



Before I read it he had texted the number. Once I read the notice I thought it was suspicious. Any type of band member with no specific requirements is a bit of a giveaway. Text or email “BAND” is a dead cert.

A quick search of the username points to a 65yo in Wisconsin.

Who is harvesting contact details of 14-17 year olds, and why?

 

[Deleted member 280263]

Nonces?

 

[Mysterae_]

At least it's not as obvious as "D'you wanna be in my band, my band, my band".

 

[hornetstinger]

Maybe they're looking for young people who can supply organs?
boom tish

 

[Scuzi]

Nonces?

I think I’ll call HMV tomorrow…

 

[Deleted member 280263]

I think I’ll call HMV tomorrow…

Maybe they're getting a cut? Human trafficking them in the HGV's to Wisconsin amongst the CD deliveries?

 

[Deleted member 280263]

Maybe they're looking for young people who can supply organs?
boom tish

 

[LOAM]

It's quite a long way from Wisconsin to post a flyer in hmv though right? I mean that's some pretty dedicated noncing.

 

[Deleted member 280263]

It's quite a long way from Wisconsin to post a flyer in hmv though right? I mean that's some pretty dedicated noncing.

Shipped across in the delivery lorries all over the world. Like when BMW was smuggling cocaine using the touring car trucks in the 90's:

The 1990s BMW Touring Car Team That Got Busted Smuggling Cocaine - Jalopnik

Vic Lee Motorsport was the most infamous teams in the British Touring Car Championship in the early 1990s. But Vic Lee himself had a little problem: sharing room with the race cars in his team’s haulers was a whole lot of cocaine. What’s poetic is what tipped off the authorities: the team’s...

www.jalopnik.com

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Is this photo from a few years ago? I thought HMV went the same way as Virgin Megastores and closed them all off bar the London branch. It was late 2014 or early 2015, over 2 big fell swoops, Stoke going in the 1st half of closures and a week or 2 later Stafford going as well in the 2nd half. Disney did the same and closed them all off except for the London branch.

 

[Zefan]

Feels like the start line for Cicadia3302.

 

[Uther]

Is this photo from a few years ago? I thought HMV went the same way as Virgin Megastores and closed them all off bar the London branch. It was late 2014 or early 2015, over 2 big fell swoops, Stoke going in the 1st half of closures and a week or 2 later Stafford going as well in the 2nd half. Disney did the same and closed them all off except for the London branch.

Nope, still a few HMV's about.

 

[Mr Badger]

Nope, still a few HMV's about.

Evidently catering for the still lucrative nonce market.

 

[Diddums]

Our Guildford branch closed this week just gone.

 

[Hades]

Our Guildford branch closed this week just gone.

Oh no. My daughter used to buy her hipster vinyls there, before having a bubble tea.

 

[Diddums]

Oh no. My daughter used to buy her hipster vinyls there, before having a bubble tea.

Yep, Friday was the last day I think

HMV closing in Guildford but hopes to relocate elsewhere in town

The brand has been a mainstay in the town centre for decades

www.getsurrey.co.uk

 

[Flor_Fina]

I emailed...we shall see

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Nope, still a few HMV's about.

My bad then!

The nearest Stafford had for the last 10 years is CEX, obviously 2nd hand market only. CEX also has the HMV style flip poster section that me+mates can banter over e.g. movie posters, the studenty ones e.g. "gamer at work", South Park and the silly cannabis ones.