I swear on a stack of Substance CDs, we didn't make this up—Disney (yes, the same Disney you're thinking of) is selling a Mickey Mouse t-shirt "inspired" by the sleeve to Joy Division's 1979 debut album Unknown Pleasures. Seriously. See that travesty above? Well, you too can look like a clueless douchebag for just $24.95 over at disneystore.com.
"Inspired by the iconic sleeve of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures album, this Waves Mickey Mouse Tee incorporates Mickey's image within the graphic of the pulse of a star. That's appropriate given few stars have made bigger waves than Mickey!"
Um, yeah—as Pitchfork dutifully points out, Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis was an epileptic depressive who regularly cheated on his wife and eventually hanged himself in their kitchen on the eve of the band's first U.S. tour. Not to mention that, ahem, the band's name was taken from a 1955 book called The House Of Dolls written by a Holocaust survivor who details how Nazi concentration camp soldiers would habitually rape groups of Jewish female prisoners... known colloquially as "Joy Division". Yeah, whoops.
Disney, next time you feel the sudden urge to co-opt the iconography of a short-lived Manchester post-punk group with a famously troubled singer... just don't.
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