Sold Date: December 28, 2014
Start Date: December 18, 2014
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Here is a NEAR MINT MINUS! DEBUT! LP by JOY DIVISION titled UNKNOWN PLEASURES. It is an ORIGINAL! PROMO! US pressing on the QUEST label, catalog #1-25840 in STEREO released in 1979. The record vinyl is in NEAR MINT MINUS! condition, shiny and black, and should have excellent playback. It has IT'S UNIQUE INNER SLEEVE (owned by a record promoter he graded the songs). The cover is original TEXTURED cardboard in EXCELLENT PLUS! condition with a little edge scuff bottom right, very light corner wear. It is your chance to add this top rated DEBUT! ALTERNATIVE / INDIE / POST-PUNK / ROCK LP to your collection. It’s a gem for the JOY DIVISION collector!! Email me with any questions and be sure to look at the pic’s. I DO NOT ACCEPT BIDS FROM OR MAIL TO SOUTH AMERICA, SOUTH AFRICA, ITALY & OTHER COUNTRIES. IF YOU ARE NOT FROM THE USA CONTACT ME BEFORE BIDDING! International bidders can email me for shipping rates. SHIPPING IN THE US IS $5.00 for MEDIA MAIL (IT IS NOT $4.00). US BUYERS PLEASE WAIT FOR INVOICE! Thanks for Looking & Good Luck!

Music Review from AllMusic.com by Ned Raggett

It even looks like something classic, beyond its time or place of origin even as it was a clear product of both -- one of 's earliest and best designs, a transcription of a signal showing a star going nova, on a black embossed sleeve. If that were all was, it wouldn't be discussed so much, but the ten songs inside, quite simply, are stone-cold landmarks, the whole album a monument to passion, energy, and cathartic despair. The quantum leap from the earliest thrashy singles to can be heard through every note, with 's deservedly famous production -- emphasizing space in the most revelatory way since the dawn of dub -- as much a hallmark as the music itself. Songs fade in behind furtive noises of motion and activity, glass breaks with the force and clarity of doom, minimal keyboard lines add to an air of looming disaster -- something, somehow, seems to wait or lurk beyond the edge of hearing. But even though this is 's album as much as anyone's, the songs and performances are the true key. redefined heavy metal sludge as chilling feedback fear and explosive energy, 's instantly recognizable bass work at once warm and forbidding, ' drumming smacking through the speakers above all else. synthesizes and purifies every last impulse, his voice shot through with the desire first and foremost to connect, only connect -- as "Candidate" plaintively states, "I tried to get to you/You treat me like this." Pick any song: the nervous death dance of "She's Lost Control"; the harrowing call for release "New Dawn Fades," all four members in perfect sync; the romance in hell of "Shadowplay"; "Insight" and its nervous drive toward some sort of apocalypse. All visceral, all emotional, all theatrical, all perfect -- one of the best albums ever.