#joy-division

#joy-division

Brian Eno once said of the Velvet Underground that their first album sold only 30,000 copies, but everyone who bought one started a band. Joy Division's debut Unknown Pleasures sold only 20,000 copies in its initial period of release, but the T‑shirt emblazoned with its cover art - an image of radio waves emanating from a pulsar taken from an astronomy encyclopedia - has long since constituted a commercial-semiotic empire unto itself.