Real Gone’s picks for Record Store Day 2020

Love it or hate it, Record Store Day has become an important fixture on the music-related calendar. From humble beginnings with a few bits and bobs to entice people into independent record shops, it’s now become a huge business tool, giving major labels an excuse to reissue all kinds of stuff. While it now seems more about a money making venture than to highlight small business, there’s still some cool stuff to be found. Never more so than for the 2020 event, where there are a truckload of artificially created rarities that look like lovely items for the keener fan.

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Deluxe vinyl reissue of Thin Lizzy’s ‘Chinatown’ confirmed for Record Store Day 2020

One of the highlights of the many items issued for Record Store Day in 2019 was a heavyweight deluxe vinyl reissue of Thin Lizzy’s ‘Black Rose’.  The expensive reissue coupled one of the band’s very best studio albums with a second LP featuring the album recreated in demo form.

The best news for fans is that those demos appeared not to mirror the anything from the widely circulated Black Rose demos bootleg, giving long-time collectors something worth having.

The same formula is being repeated for this years event, with 1980’s ‘Chinatown’ being chosen for the deluxe treatment.

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