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Peter Hook on the Joy Division/Mickey Mouse shirt I linked to the other day:

“I take it as a compliment,” Hook said, adding that to his knowledge, Disney didn’t approach representatives handling Factory Records’ catalog or the surviving members of Joy Division for permission. “If I had a pound for every time someone bootlegged Joy Division, I’d be as rich as Disney. But it’s interesting in a kitsch way. It’s this cross between something very adult and this well-known image of childhood. I’ve heard it’s sold out, so maybe it’ll become a kind of urban legend.”

Also, Disney has apparently pulled it, which makes me really want one.

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This Disney Joy Division t-shirt is equal parts clever and the saddest thing you’ve ever seen.

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Despite the new best-of album, the guys from New Order really don’t like each other much, lead

Despite the new best-of album, the guys from New Order really don’t like each other much, leading to the sort-of-brilliant headline “Joyless Division.” [via]

The truth is, Bernard’s a twat and he always has been.

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Peter Saville on the cover art he created for Joy Division and New Order. [via] This cover for the b

Peter Saville on the cover art he created for Joy Division and New Order. [via]

This cover for the band’s second album was like a work of antiquity, but inside is a vinyl album, so it’s a postmodern juxtaposition of a contemporary work housed in the antique. At first, I didn’t believe the photo was an actual tomb but it’s really in a cemetery in Genoa. When Tony Wilson (Factory co-founder) told me Ian Curtis had died I said, ‘Tony, we have a tomb on the cover.’ There was great deliberation as to whether to continue with it. But the band, Ian included, had chosen the photograph. We did it in good faith and not in any post-tragedy way.

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Bad Lieutenant (The Band)

New Order + Joy Division + Blur = Bad Lieutenant. A collaboration I can’t help but get really excited about.

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