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Newly remastered for this anniversary release, Rage Against the Machine - XX will be available as a CD in three configurations: 1) 20th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Box Set housing two CDs, two DVDs, one 12" 180gm vinyl LP, one 40 page booklet and two-sided poster; 2) 20th Anniversary Special Edition featuring two CDs and a bonus DVD featuring six tracks in an oversized softpack and 3) 20th Anniversary Edition single compact disc (with three bonus tracks).

Rage Against the Machine - XX (20th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Box Set)

CD 1 includes the original album, remastered, with 3 bonus tracks of collectible b-sides from era.

CD 2 presents the original Rage Against the Machine demo tape. Recorded in 1991 and sold for $5 at the merch table at early Rage shows, the tape achieved mythical word-of-mouth status amongst music fans while helping to seal the band's deal with Epic Records. The 20th anniversary releases of Rage Against the Machine - XX marks the first time the entire RATM demo tapes have seen a full official release.

DVD #1 features Rage Against the Machine's historic free concert in Finsbury Park on June 2010, performed as a thank-you to UK fans for making "Killing in the Name" the UK's Number One Single during Christmas week 2009. Also included is the band's groundbreaking music videos plus live concert performance clips, some of which are released for the first time ever.

DVD#2 takes you back to the release of Rage s debut album focusing on live performance from 1991-1994 and which features for the first time the full set of RATM's first public performance as well as various live clips.

Rage Against the Machine - XX includes new liner notes, penned especially for the band's 20th anniversary by longtime fan and hip-hop pioneer Chuck D.


The above description is the deluxe version, which sells for $95 on Amazon and comes out Nov. 27.

The 2-CD version is cheaper ($20), but those extra DVDs are pretty sweet.

Anybody gonna fork over the money for this?

islandclaws

Mild interest, but I'm really sick of re-buying albums.

Mike86

I might pick up the two CD set. Repurchasing old albums doesn't bother me in a case like this where it's been twenty years since it initially came out. I hate when a special edition with extra tracks is released a year or two after an album first comes out.

DJLinus

Take that, you dirty capitalists!

(I can't believe it's been 20 years. Well, I can, but still...)

Tarantino

Great, great album...but I've already got it.

Why So Blu?

Wow, and that's just for the first album? Pretty steep for that collector's set, though. I love RATM.

Ringmaster

Those original RATM albums sound awesome so im not into buying an overly compressed version of this album.

emanon

I found the vinyl re-release during my Record Store Day pursuits...score!