I've been rocking on
Rock Band almost since it came out (almost done with expert on guitar and hard on drums -- stupid bass pedal is driving me nuts -- and the band my friends and I formed, Fel and the Boatmen, just got ourselves a jet). And now, iTunes has made it easy to rock even away from the game: they've collected
all the Rock Band tracks all in one place. That's the good news -- the bad news is that all together, the tracks will cost you a whopping $73.26. That's still 99 cents a song, so exactly no price cuts for a bundle purchase.
The tracks don't exactly match up to the game, either; first of all, even where the game has cover tracks, iTunes has the original artists (and sometimes, live versions of the tracks, which aren't necessarily the same as the game). And there are no bonus tracks --
Freezepop is in iTunes (as is
Mother Hips, my other favorite bonus song) but not on the
Rock Band list at all. Still, if you absolutely have to own one of the
Rock Band songs, I guess it's nice that iTunes put them all in one place for you.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-15-2008 @ 1:03PM
J Dogg said...
It's not exactly kosher (as Christmas) but I "received" a folder of these tracks a few months ago that actually includes some of the bonus tracks. I've since added some of the downloadable content as well. Great soundtrack.
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2-15-2008 @ 1:43PM
why not the LS2LS7? said...
Freezepop Forever
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2-15-2008 @ 2:07PM
Bryan J Busch said...
Good. That was only three months late.
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2-15-2008 @ 3:08PM
RJ said...
Mother Hips RULE. Check out their older stuff...Part-timer goes full, Back to the Grotto...CLASSICS.
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2-15-2008 @ 3:49PM
Quine said...
bittorrent it, listen a few times, then buy all the individual songs you like off itunes/amazon mp3 and make your own "best of rock band" list just the way you like it. Or buy all the songs and there you go. Takes a whopping 30 mins more and it actually gets you what you want.
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2-15-2008 @ 9:32PM
George said...
Wait... is the author complaining that iTunes didn't put the covers in and replaced them with the original artists? That's a bad thing???
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