Record Store Day is an annual celebration held to appreciate the culture of the independently owned record stores around the world which takes place on the third Saturday of April annually and this year, two classic Bowie picture discs sets are being re-issued in commemoration of the recently passed legend (via Gigwise).

The event that will take place on April 16th seeks to champion and maintain the growth and popularity of vinyl record sales. Vinyls have been slowly making a comeback to the music industry with sales exponentially growing from sales within record stores to sales within major high street shops such as HMV and Urban Outfitters.

According to Pitchfork, the two Bowie re-issues will be released in the form of ‘Station to Station’ single ‘TVC15′ and the beautiful 1970’s album ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ which is said to be reissued with the original German Artwork. The information was released through David Bowie’s official Facebook page.

Other features on the popular annual celebration this year includes Metallica who were announced as official global ambassadors and furthermore, John Malkovish joined forces with various remixes of the actor reading an interpretation of Plato’s Cave Allegory alongside Yoko Ono and The Dandy Warhols. The LP was released on November 27th at the Record Store Day’s Black Friday event and will be re-released on April 16th.

Previously, an announcement was made that Bowie had planned various posthumous released prior to his death what would be ‘divided into different eras. Even more, it is also reported that there are a total of five unheard songs from his final album Blackstar that are yet to be released and that Bowie had started demoing new tracks for one more album in the weeks prior to his unfortunate death.

You can listen to the lead tracks of the David Bowie re-issues below: