WARSAW JOY DIVISION The Ideal Beginning Enigma PSS 138
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WARSAW( JOY DIVISION )
THE IDEAL BEGINNING
ENIGMA PSS 138 UK 1977
THE EP COMES IN A FOLDOUT SLEEVE AND CONTAINS THE TRACKS:
- INSIDE THE LINE
- GUTZ
- AT A LATER DATE
ENGRAVED MATRIX NUMBERS ARE PSS-138-A/B and FRANCIS. CONDITION OF RECORD and SLEEVE ARTE BOTH MINT-. AS FAR AS I KNOW ONLY 2000 WERE PRESSED AND I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF A REPRESS OF THIS ITEM (HAS ANYBODY INFORMATIONS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW). POSTAGE DEPENDS ON COUNTRY AND SHIPMENT.
According to Neil Woodvine's privately published 1992 "book" (a stapled together computer print-out) entitled Joy Division:
"In May 1981 a most interesting item surfaced. An EP, or more accurately, a pair of EP's, titled 'THE IDEAL BEGINNING' featuring four unheard tracks, At a Later Date, Gutz, The Kill and Inside The Line. Released in excellent quality stereo, at first whether this was a bootleg or an officially sanctioned release was unclear. A little detective work revealed the source to be Manchester's Chaos Cassettes who claimed that it was not so much a bootleg as 'An underground collectors edition'. John West, the man responsible for Chaos releases said "We only had 2000 pressed so that it would remain collectable. It was done with the approval of the group's management. They did it just the same as they did the Sordide Sentimental deal last year. They did it just to show people what early Joy Division were like". Enclosed in a sleeve designed after An Ideal For Living the EP's were issued on May 18th 1981, exactly one year after Ian's death. A bootleg in all but name, royalties of a fashion were paid to the band."
2001
On Oct-09-06 at 10:14:10 PDT, seller added the following information: AS I GOT MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS RECORD: I BOUGHT IT NEARLY 25 YEARS AGO, AND SO I THINK IT'S NOT A REPRESS. IF IT IS A REPRESS, I'LL TAKE IT BACK !!!
