Excerpted from a new oral history of Joy Division: how the legendary band formed, thanks to hanging around bookstores.

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They were disparate, alienated young men attracted to like-minded souls. They wanted something offbeat and off the beaten track, and the shop supplied this. They probably saw the shop as being a beacon in the rather bleak Manchester of the early '70s.

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