All I Want for Christmas, Part 4: New Balance Joy Division

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You Can Run But You Can't Hide Lately, when I’ve been jogging, I seem to keep forgetting about, you know, the horror. But if you too need a reminder during your exercise sessions that “a loaded gun won’t set you free,” why not pick up these special edition New Balance Joy Division tennies? They’re snazzy white and gray sneakers with the artwork from the Div’s first album Unknown Pleasures on the tongue and the sole. Actually, it’s just a prototype, but perhaps if we all lose control we can cause enough disorder so that they’ll make these shoes before the, um, new dawn fades… ugh, are they sure a loaded gun won’t set me free?