This IS Year Zero

[Jake Wallace]

Another new Nine Inch Nails (http://www.nin.com) track from Year Zero (http://yearzero.nin.com) (April 17th) has been found on a flash drive in a bathroom stall on their current European tour. This time it's "Me, I'm Not" (http://www.echoingthesound.org/phpbbx/viewtopic.php?t=20515&start=0). Along with the song, was an mp3 of cricket chirping, which when put through a spectrogram revealed the number: 216.333.1810. Call it.

[kitchentable]

this is so fucking cool

[crit]

i just called the number...a voice says "us phone tap case identifier 71839j...file accessed...begin playback." a woman answers the phone and some girl was screaming her head off "mommy! mommy!" and she said something about "he killed joyce in the club" and "some guy came into the club all messed up" and "i locked myself in the stock room." the mom says "nia(??) are you alright" then there was a lot more screaming...fucking weird. maybe it's from a movie or something?

[kitchentable]

i just called the number and i've never been so scared in my life

[beauty is dead]

holy shit. that was scary

[juicefiveone]

That's a little nuts. I suppose when you get a secret phone number from NiN...I should only expect as much.

[actappalled]

this is some messed up shit

[ror.]

creeeepy.

[xeightoh3xx]

fucking weird

[Rodeo]

Cool concept... terrible acting.... but I guess thats what I get when I've been so desensitized to violence (i collect horror movies)

[Esrb99]

woah.

[The Revisionist]

That phone call was FUCKED UP.

Jesus, this is one hell of an album marketing campaign.

[Exsanguination]

this ARG is way fucking intense.

[S84newt2000]

haha, I'm too scared to call it after reading everybody's reaction

[FF4889]

Jesus H. Christ that's scary shit. :-|

[Chemical Love]

This is really cool.

[Rodeo]

If you all think this is intense.. you should see the snuff film Trent made. There are only 500 copies in the world and some people think that it doesn't even exist. But, I own it.. and it is fucked up. Trent dissects someone on camera. A little fucking handheld camcorder on a tri-pod.

[brandrezake]

If you all think this is intense.. you should see the snuff film Trent made. There are only 500 copies in the world and some people think that it doesn't even exist. But, I own it.. and it is fucked up. Trent dissects someone on camera. A little fucking handheld camcorder on a tri-pod.

o...k....?

[MontysFC]

my roomates and i just called it ... very odd

[kitchentable]

what do you guys think are the numbers for the album sales? after all this shit

[ThisIsNotDan]

If you all think this is intense.. you should see the snuff film Trent made. There are only 500 copies in the world and some people think that it doesn't even exist. But, I own it.. and it is fucked up. Trent dissects someone on camera. A little fucking handheld camcorder on a tri-pod.

true. sober or not, trent is one fucked up individual.

anyways, i love the songs, they are such an improvement over with teeth.

as for the ad campaign...Aqua Teen Hunger Force take note.

[Blake Solomon]

i dont really like the band, but i LOVE a scavenger hunt. kudos to them.

[ByelineCole]

If you all think this is intense.. you should see the snuff film Trent made. There are only 500 copies in the world and some people think that it doesn't even exist. But, I own it.. and it is fucked up. Trent dissects someone on camera. A little fucking handheld camcorder on a tri-pod.


leak it!!!@1234w234234!

[mycuban]

That was fucked up...a little creepy but i guess it is NIN so there's the explanation

[brandrezake]

leak it!!!@1234w234234!

I second this one!

[sell the sunris]

dear god this is the most amazing marketing campaign.

[Ruggiero2oo8]

i dont really like the band, but i LOVE a scavenger hunt. kudos to them.

I agree.

[Dean Wormer]

http://www.uswiretap.com/71839J/

This is interesting....

[lftcoastenvy05]

216-333-1810?

216 is a cleveland area code

[brandrezake]

Bullshit.
Nice try though!

And this one time....at band camp....

[getupkid619]

WTF.
that was fucking nuts

[Tmovielife16]

http://www.uswiretap.com/71839J/

This is interesting....
weird, this is a great idea though

[danzigeatsbaby]

I looked for any hidden links on that website and there aren't any from that page...there could be some other stuff hidden in that domain though.

I did a search on the phone # and this is what i got, doubt it is related hahah...

Holbrook & Associates [55919] Guide (http://www.jobmag.com/guide/c055/c055919.htm)
Type: Employment firms
Address: 21010 Center Ridge Road, Rocky River, OH 44116
Ph: 216-333-1810"

[kevinrocks409]

http://resync.net/~cut/0/uswiretap-20070219.mp3...
holy sheet this is wierd
im kinda scared

[jimboj917]

that's a cleveland number.

[danzigeatsbaby]

hmmm, found some new related stuff....

http://anotherversionofthetruth.com/

http://iamtryingtobelieve.com/

[shaysexpanther]

fucked up.

this marketing campaign
is wicked

[somethingwitty]

Actually he isn't lying about that video. It was the VHS that was made to accompany "Broken". The video was never put into ditribution due to the graphic footage. If you want a sample check out the videos for "Pinion" and "Happiness in Slavery". WARNING: very graphic and male nudity involved.

http://www.nin.com/visuals/index.html


...the videos are located there

[somethingwitty]

btw, the new song kicks ass

[Rodeo]

Bullshit.
Nice try though!

No, I really do have it.

[Rodeo]

Actually he isn't lying about that video. It was the VHS that was made to accompany "Broken". The video was never put into ditribution due to the graphic footage. If you want a sample check out the videos for "Pinion" and "Happiness in Slavery". WARNING: very graphic and male nudity involved.

http://www.nin.com/visuals/index.html


...the videos are located there

Thank you. :-)



Yeah, this video was sent out to MTV, radio stations, etc. It's called "the X-Files".

[shaysexpanther]

that wiretap shit

WOAH

[oscaristhebest0]

that's a cleveland number.

yep, i don't even think that is long distance for me

[FatJordan]

If you all think this is intense.. you should see the snuff film Trent made. There are only 500 copies in the world and some people think that it doesn't even exist. But, I own it.. and it is fucked up. Trent dissects someone on camera. A little fucking handheld camcorder on a tri-pod.

It's stupid. I spent a couple of months looking for it and was so let down. It's essentially a music video...with lots of blood, gore, and dick.

I still <3 NIN though.

[_kate]

http://www.uswiretap.com/71839J/

This is interesting....

did anyone else notice there is backwards text, like, BEHIND the page?

[Drewisrad25]

trent is a genius.

[sweethypocrisy]

so, are all these sites/files created by trent or what?

[somethingwitty]

the backward text is from Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut....

heres the excerpt:

"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground.
I went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, and we made friends with a cab driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. His name was Gerhard Müller. He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes."

[Rodeo]

the backward text is from Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut....

heres the excerpt:

"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names. I really did go back to Dresden with Guggenheim money (God love it) in 1967. It looked a lot like Dayton, Ohio, more open spaces than Dayton has. There must be tons of human bone meal in the ground.
I went back there with an old war buddy, Bernard V. O'Hare, and we made friends with a cab driver, who took us to the slaughterhouse where we had been locked up at night as prisoners of war. His name was Gerhard Müller. He told us that he was a prisoner of the Americans for a while. We asked him how it was to live under Communism, and he said that it was terrible at first, because everybody had to work so hard, and because there wasn't much shelter or food or clothing. But things were much better now. He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes."


How do you know so much? Are you an angel?!


ahah

[weworemasks]

hands down, this is one of the most genius promotion things i've ever "seen." i'm not even a fan of this band, but this is pretty incredible.

[64 % chance]

this shit should win an award

[somethingwitty]

http://www.blindwithrain.com/TheWarning.jpg


...many are speculating that there's a connection tying this record to all the other NIN recordings. Here's a screenshot of the .pdf that came packaged with "with_teeth". It says "the warning" in the middle of the creen and "the warning" is a track on YZ. Also, the pictures of the hand comeing through the clouds and touching tghe earth have been traced back to a track from "the fragile". "The wretched" mentions god arting the clouds and reaching down to earth. also with the introduction of opal as this futuristic drug and the copper refrences from the wiretap site there;s direct connection to the CD single for 'Head Like A Hole" released in '89. The 3 remixes of the track on that single were Opal, Copper, and Soil.

[kevowhat1!!]

This phone call business reminds me of the stuff AFI has been doing for a few years now with the Charlotte Mystery and the Five Flowers. Pretty neato though.

[jdgtrplyr]

This is so trippy.

[trindaddy]

creepiest. thing. ever.

[FrankMareno]

that was crazy

[permanentdan]

wow. that was crazy.

[AShannon04]

This phone call business reminds me of the stuff AFI has been doing for a few years now with the Charlotte Mystery and the Five Flowers. Pretty neato though.

Yeah, that's what first came to mind for me.

So I'm assuming the pendrive was "planted" in the bathroom? :shrug:

[dmlax08]

A friend of mine recorded the recording on his phone.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/w3nqe2

[Prestonxsmith]

Yeah, that's what first came to mind for me.

So I'm assuming the pendrive was "planted" in the bathroom? :shrug:
Yeah, someone is planting flash drives in the mens stalls at some of the shows for their euro tour.

[AShannon04]

Yeah, someone is planting flash drives in the mens stalls at some of the shows for their euro tour.

cool shit.

[somethingwitty]

now theres rumors that "Year ZerO' may not be released in a traditional format. Interscope doesn't have the record on its release schedule and Trent hinted a few months back that he was having problems with the label about the "commercial" appeal of the record. Some are now saying that Trent is releasing the album track by track and making it available to fans free on April 13 via the yearzero.nin.com site itself.

[trjlangdon]

http://img242.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled1fg6.jpg

There's the link to a picture of the spectogram, if anyone was wondering what it looked like

[turbonium]

omg that is messed up.

[CastlevaniaOwns]

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn I was a lil scurrrrred

[Alexxx]

I think it might be free. That man is a genius for this whole marketing strategy. if it is a marketing strategy at all. i wonder what that phone calls from, is it real? is it fake? its crazy whatever it is. I'm totally thinking that hes gonna release it for free because how many tracks have came out so far? that mans rich, and successful, maybe he realizes he doesn't need all the money, he'll just make it by touring or something. i have a ton of theory's. hes a genius none the less.

[Zchilly]

Did anyone see on the www.anotherversionofthetruth.com (http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com) site that if you click your mouse down, it erases to another picture. Once you erase everything....you click and it takes you to a forum with crazy shit. Theres crazy audio clips on there with a sniper and a link to his site www.bethehammer.org (http://www.bethehammer.org) theres just so much on this. I'll just list some more sites connected cause I cant even explain it all.
www.105thairbornecrusaders.com (http://www.105thairbornecrusaders.com)
www.churchofplano.com (http://www.churchofplano.com)
www.consolidatedmailsystems.com (http://www.consolidatedmailsystems.com)
Theres stuff on all these sites and probably more secrets this is by far the most extravagant marketing scheme ever. I love it

[AShannon04]

Did anyone see on the www.anotherversionofthetruth.com (http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com) site that if you click your mouse down, it erases to another picture. Once you erase everything....you click and it takes you to a forum with crazy shit. Theres crazy audio clips on there with a sniper and a link to his site www.bethehammer.org (http://www.bethehammer.org) theres just so much on this. I'll just list some more sites connected cause I cant even explain it all.
www.105thairbornecrusaders.com (http://www.105thairbornecrusaders.com)
www.churchofplano.com (http://www.churchofplano.com)
www.consolidatedmailsystems.com (http://www.consolidatedmailsystems.com)
Theres stuff on all these sites and probably more secrets this is by far the most extravagant marketing scheme ever. I love it

what about AFI? Their secret shit is b-a-n-a-n-a-s

[Zchilly]

I had no idea about AFI's thats awesome though that bands do this. Keeping things interesting.

[Drewisrad25]

wtf this is insane.
god trent reznor is a genius.

[AP_Punk]

X-)

[markbroadway]

a new way to market

[ByelineCole]

i didnt even know it was possible to make a spectogram look like that.

[Johnny Clutch]

Reminds me of the stuff Lost was doing last year with those webpages and phone number... crazy stuff.

I like it Trent.

[Drewisrad25]

"I'm trying to avoid getting too detailed about this, but I will tell you that this is a concept record, and it's part of a bigger picture of a number of things I'm working on. Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist"
-trent reznor

year zero is going to be insane.

it also says...

He further wrote that when he finishes a new album, he has to "go into battle with the people whose job it is to figure out how to sell the record. The only time that didn't happen was [for] With Teeth. This time, however, [he was] expecting an epic struggle. [Year Zero] is not a particularly friendly record and it certainly doesn't sound like anything else out there right now."[19] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(album)#_note-7)[20] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(album)#_note-8) Reznor has expressed his dissatisfaction with current trends in rock music, especially emo music (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo_%28music%29).[21] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(album)#_note-9)[22] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Zero_(album)#_note-10)

[dontfront]

don't get it... whats the purpose of all this? certainly doesn't make me want to listen to/buy NIN stuff...

edit.

"I'm trying to avoid getting too detailed about this, but I will tell you that this is a concept record, and it's part of a bigger picture of a number of things I'm working on. Essentially, I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist"
-trent reznor

year zero is going to be insane.

it also says...

He further wrote that when he finishes a new album, he has to "go into battle with the people whose job it is to figure out how to sell the record. The only time that didn't happen was [for] With Teeth. This time, however, [he was] expecting an epic struggle. [Year Zero] is not a particularly friendly record and it certainly doesn't sound like anything else out there right now."[19][20] Reznor has expressed his dissatisfaction with current trends in rock music, especially emo music.[21][22]

hmm i see...

[Drewisrad25]

well just read the wiki on it, it kinda makes you understand some of it. Its all about the end of the world.

[PlunketChris]

I havent been into this band for a while.. but man, this shit is good. I dig this whole thing

[chronomic]

hahaha these dudes are intense

[ThankQ4DVenom]

Anyone know where I can get the tracks at ?

[genericmadness]

does anyone else think it suspicious that the finders always know exactly what to do with the flash drives and files found therein?

[MikeOxlarhj]

well, all of this is working.. i haven't liked them in the past but this is definitely keeping my attention.

[somethingwitty]

Giving this record away for free would be a huge "fuck you" to the record industry specifically Interscope.

here's an excerpt from an interview with Kerrang!

Kerrang!: What's the concept?

Trent Reznor: "I'm trying to avoid getting too detailed about this but I will tell you that this is a concept record, and it's part of a bigger picture of a number of things I'm working on. Essentially I wrote the soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist. This album is a bit more electronic and I'd say rhyme plays a bigger element in it than in the past and it's veering away from concern about song structure and getting played on the radio."

Kerrang!: Are you talking about some kind of multimedia event?

Trent Reznor: "My goal is that the music can be interpreted with the richest context. So what I'm immersed in is a way to achieve that. Now that albums have gone from 12 inches of real estate with artwork and a whole aesthetic, to CDs, which are ugly and disposable, to nowadays just being a file on a computer, it's led me to putting a lot of thought in to ways to present music that still makes it feel important and that has depth and purpose."

Kerrang!: Will it be a heavy album?

Trent Reznor: "It's not heavy in any kind of metal type sense, I'd say a big inspiration sonically would be early PUBLIC ENEMY records, a collage of sound type of thing, not heavy in a metal guitar kind of way."

Kerrang!: On "The Downward Spiral" and "The Fragile" you blended together an extreme amount of disparate sounds and layers — is this moving further in that direction?

Trent Reznor: "Well Alan Moulder (long-time collaborator) was stunned when he first heard it. Normally a ProTools session has alot of tracks and this time he was like, 'You're kidding me, it's only this much stuff?' The end result has a bit of racket to it — it's much more improvisational, less refined. With this record I feel a lot less concerned about what people think about it — especially the dying record industry. I couldn't care less about that right now."

[kallok]

Trent is one clever dude. 216 is a Cleveland area code... Trent is from Cleveland. I had the pleasure to run into him about 5 years ago.

[moonlights]

http://www.uswiretap.com/71839J/

This is interesting....
question: is the page supposed to look fucked up or is that just my browseR?

either way, nice detective skills ;]

[garlicgirl1210]

whoa.

[makeasound]

On the wiretap page, if you highlight the text it makes it erases the double-type and makes it easier to read.

I'm loving this.

[3GunGaz]

don't get it... whats the purpose of all this? certainly doesn't make me want to listen to/buy NIN stuff...

I am the opposite, seeing all this DID make me want to.. Only problem is I STILL don't like what I hear unfortunately, not for me I'm afraid. It's very clever though, I am sure tons of people will be taken in by it, like this rumoured snuff film. You can make people believe anything.

I don't know anything about the AFI stuff, anyone care to explain what they did?

[gunneryoung]

guys there was no flash drive in a bathroom, im pretty sure that was just made up to add to the story, because i'm sorry i don't believe for a second that anyone in the world in their right mind would listen to an mp3 of a cricket and say "well, i better put that through the ol' spectrogram" it's just supposed to add to the mystery aesthetic of it all. but however i could be wrong, and i hope i am because that would just make this campaign even cooler.

[3GunGaz]

guys there was no flash drive in a bathroom, im pretty sure that was just made up to add to the story, because i'm sorry i don't believe for a second that anyone in the world in their right mind would listen to an mp3 of a cricket and say "well, i better put that through the ol' spectrogram" it's just supposed to add to the mystery aesthetic of it all. but however i could be wrong, and i hope i am because that would just make this campaign even cooler.

I have to agree with ya. The websites and the idea are all cool and mysterious.. but how many people do you know that would find a flash drive in some toilet, then put it through a spectogram? I think the first thought would be "has someone pissed on this?" haha. But yeah.. at least they're being inventive!

[bitpom666]

I think this is a great idea and helps to expand on the music itself. Thursday did something like this called The Hunt that they launched using Google Earth when their last album "A City By The Light Divided" came out in 2006. http://earth.thursday.com

[Indigo]

This is incredible.

There's something in those backgrounds, dammit!

[rhythmgtr5]

I like what trent is doing with all the marketing, but this song isn't good imo. I like the other tracks that I've heard off Year Zero though

[buysoap]

Crazy shit

[utgjames]

This is no new idea. Though it is cool. Generally, we refer to this as a ARG [alternate realtiy game] made in order to promote a product by gripping you by the proverbial testes and luring you into a story line. Like the HHR campaign for cars, A.I. did one for their film....this stuff generally pays off and it deserves to.

[truthbetoldxx]

I'm pretty sure it was probably Trent himself who started the whole, jumpdrive in a bathroom, omg look, I put this through a spectogram.

This is ingenious shit, and I can't wait.

[Springbreak04]

this whole thing is very x-files - even some of the titles seem like x-files references to me. "i am trying to believe," "the truth," "zero sum," and the different government conspiracies. it's awesome. this has actually piqued my interest.

[AShannon04]

I don't know anything about the AFI stuff, anyone care to explain what they did?

From what I understand, they have been doing something very similar to this for a number of years with fake websites, outgoing voicemail messages with clues, special packaging, and cool shit like that. For example, I think the rabbits on DecemberUnderground have some special significance, and if you look at certain pictures at certain angles or something, different things appear.

Sometimes they give clues to secret shows that only diehard fans will find out about, and others give info about upcoming albums and such. Looking back, it seems like their entire catalogue has been part of a bigger "theme". It's pretty cool to learn about.

check out http://board.despairfaction.com/showthread.php?t=4971 for more AFI secret stuff. It gives a lot more information than I could ever understand or digest.

[sugarkadi]

Wtf

[3GunGaz]

From what I understand, they have been doing something very similar to this for a number of years with fake websites, outgoing voicemail messages with clues, special packaging, and cool shit like that. For example, I think the rabbits on DecemberUnderground have some special significance, and if you look at certain pictures at certain angles or something, different things appear.

Sometimes they give clues to secret shows that only diehard fans will find out about, and others give info about upcoming albums and such. Looking back, it seems like their entire catalogue has been part of a bigger "theme". It's pretty cool to learn about.

check out http://board.despairfaction.com/showthread.php?t=4971 for more AFI secret stuff. It gives a lot more information than I could ever understand or digest.

Thanks a lot chap. Just reading through that link now.... Trying to follow it haha. It's some intense stuff, EXTREMELY interesting though. Some of it's probably like them 9/11 emails you see .. ooh 9+1+1 = America deliberately let it happen..... but this seems very entertaining and clever. It'd be great if all this stuff is planned, extremely clever.

[Springbreak04]

now i'm all curious about the AFI stuff too. i love that band and i know there are back meanings to a lot of their songs and albums. i really think it would be interesting to learn more about those.

[Coil]

He's doin the same thing AFI did, except they did it a year ago. Oh-riginal.

[Drewisrad25]

He's doin the same thing AFI did, except they did it a year ago. Oh-riginal.

no i dont think so at all. AFI was pretty insane. All I know is that they had a lot of crazy shit going down and in the end, if you followed it long enough, and didnt think you were crazy, you were rewarded. In the end there were 5 types of flowers. And you had to meet 5 people from the compaign. And when you met them you gave them one of the 5 flowers. and the person gave you a secret pass to a exlcusive concert. Its a lot deeper then that but I'm too lazy to go into it. There are websites that tell you all the shit that went down.

as for this... i think there is a deeper meaning to it all that will come out too play sooner or later. I'm sure a lot more crazy shit will go down the closer we get to April 15. But the websites and tall that shit came from tshirts. Like they were hidden in the design. And that started last year, so obviously Trent put a lot of thought in this. He is a fucking genius.

I think he is about to throw a big middle finger up to the record industry and the state of "rock" these days. I'm excited.

[somethingwitty]

IF NIN is copying AFI then AFI is copying Manrilyn Manson who started something similair in 1998 to promote "Mechanical Animals".

...btw, the most recent jumpdrive was found in the balcony area of the venue, not in the bathroom like the first one. The jumpdrive's come with instructions which some of the people that found them have scanned online.

[blinkbomber]

http://www.blindwithrain.com/TheWarning.jpg


...many are speculating that there's a connection tying this record to all the other NIN recordings. Here's a screenshot of the .pdf that came packaged with "with_teeth". It says "the warning" in the middle of the creen and "the warning" is a track on YZ. Also, the pictures of the hand comeing through the clouds and touching tghe earth have been traced back to a track from "the fragile". "The wretched" mentions god arting the clouds and reaching down to earth. also with the introduction of opal as this futuristic drug and the copper refrences from the wiretap site there;s direct connection to the CD single for 'Head Like A Hole" released in '89. The 3 remixes of the track on that single were Opal, Copper, and Soil.

NIN copy AFI because AFI did it a year ago? That's the funneist thing I've read on here. LQTM.

[wtfsobeautiful?]

it was found through spectrograph analysis of 2432.mp3 the phone number is apparently a wire-tap recording of a phone call, it also gives the case number 71839j for use on the us wiretap website.
The numbers area code and prefix trace back to a number originating from cleveland, ohio. When cross referencing phone company info, it seems that the number belongs to GotVMail.com. GotVMail.com provides multiple lines for people to call in and listen to the message.
Once the line picks-up dial 385# (other numbers may work, this is what I tried) and you enter into a voicemail system. You are able to enter in a last name and so far I have not been able to get any last names to work. I have tried different names from the name list on the site and the names of the people at gotVMAIL neither have worked. I have also tried.

the 216 area code is the area code for the state of ohio
the 333 prefix is specific to Cleveland itself, and assigned to Ameritech of Ohio as a Residential or Business line

automated female voice: U.S. Wiretap. Case identifier 7-1-8-3-9-J. File accessed. Begin playback.
(2 1/2 Rings)

Roby: Hello?

Mia: Roby? Roby? Roby, are you there? Oh my god, I'm at the club, you need to get me out of here. I'm going to die, oh my God, I'm going to die.

(Gunshot and scream)

Roby: Mia, what's going on?

Mia: He killed Joey so I locked myself in the stock room and now I can't get out and everybody's got it.

Roby: What is going on?

Mia: This guy, he came into the club really freaked out. And we, we didn't even see the knife. And his shirt was soaked red. And Joey said "Holy shit, you need a doctor". And then the guy just stabbed him, and he was sweating blood, and screaming, and he wouldn't stop until somebody killed him with a beer bottle.

(Crash, scream from Mia)

Roby: Honey, okay wait. I'm going to call the cops.

Mia: (Screaming) They're outside, they're outside!

Mia: Don't, the cops are already here. They're the ones who locked us in.

Roby: What?

Mia: I've gotta fight, I need a weapon...a gun.

Roby: You're going to be okay, you're going to make it out of there. I'll be up there in five minutes

Roby: Mia, you okay?

(Breathing)

Mia: Roby, you there? Blood...there's blood coming out of my skin...

Roby: Mia, listen. You need to listen.

Mia: Roby, I need you to take care of my dog. Okay, the food..

(Screaming)

Roby: Mia! Mia, what's going on?!

Mia: Get me the hell out of here.

Roby: Tell me what's going on.

Mia: Oh my God, please. Help me, please, God.

Roby: Mia!! Mia!!!!

(Re-order tone and hangup)

(NOTE: There appears to be another Morse code signal here between the hangup and the automated voice saying "Goodbye." However it is difficult to make out using the file below due to the low 8KHz sampling rate. It's speculated that the number is 24.3.1.)

Automated female voice: Goodbye.