Right away with the insult, eh? Rather than actually defend your position, you resort to ad hominem insults.
Okay fine...I didn't want to do this here, but since you always seem to leave a final comment that only allow a "flag" but no "reply" here goes:
What did you do, spend all day researching the history of Robert Smith. Who gives a shit. Your comment may be right, as far as it goes... It is besides the point. Unless your point is to prove that you are a Post-Punk groupie. Me, I just listened to the Cure. I mean, who uses phrases like "The Cure started out as Punk band...one of a bunch that sprouted in the wake of the Ramones's..."except perhaps Korey Grow or Rob Sheffield.
Now, what I find most interesting is this :"I bought Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures direct from Rough Trade's USA mailorder outlet in '79 when Curtis was still alive, and the Cure's 2nd and Siouxsie's JuJu..."
If I did my math right, and I did... that was 41 years ago. Now, if I am generous, and I am...if I allow for you being at least 14 years old in 1979, why? that would make you at least 55-I repeat, FIFTY-FIVE, years old. 55...and you have the temerity make fun of my age, Gramps.
You are a fraud.