Ending in the Middle

One of the few drawbacks of attending Oberlin College between 1979-1983 had to do with that small Ohio town’s lack of a record store. The bi-annual student vinyl swaps were both heavily attended and fiendishly idiosyncratic.B ut it’s still embarrassing to think that this 1988 Phoenix review was my first exposure to Joy Division, and how catching up made me sound daft. So this marks my first stab at the topic, and seeks points for historical transparency. July marks the 35th anniversary of this CD collection, and Ian Curtis would have turned 67 on July 15 (b. 1956).