Just do it the quasi-legal way and borrow all the cd's from the library and rip all the songs on your hard drive.

gyroball

It takes a special level of retardation to think that you'd get a discount on this. Buy 70 tracks from iTunes, pay $70 - why should you get a free ride because you're buying in bulk?

Seriously, gamers are a bunch of cheapskates at the best of times.

c-threepio

Or maybe this will help?
[phobos.apple.com]

conjecture

To the people who can't find it: There are three windows at the top of the iTunes Store that change every minute or so. One of those windows turns out to be a link to the "Music from Rock Band" playlist. I don't yet know how else to get there though...

conjecture

This is not on iTunes anywhere. I've tried to search for it 5 different ways and got nothing.

Mycool

@Witzbold: Yeah the GHIII controllers are compatible with Rock Band on the 360. They will be releasing Rock Band guitars for the PS3/360 in April. Yeah region locking is BS...from a company standpoint I suppose it's understandable, since every respective region wants to make their own profit.

y2kenjination

@kazuya: You do have the music you already paid for. It's in the game. Jesus.

dowingba

Just what I was hoping for!

Having less money to play games!

Why not just let us have the music we have already payed for? Oh I get it you guys want us to keep spending all of our money, and then blame us for rampant music, and software piracy. When there is trouble turn on the consumers, right?

*Thumbs up*

kazuya

I can't find this anywhere on iTunes.

AnEternalEnigma

@y2kenjination: Yeah was thinking about that. Cept it means Id have to buy more guitars and what not. Since I already have the GHIII one on the 360 which works with the 360 version right?

In anycase fuck regioning with games. Its such an old way of thinking. As long as folks are buying the game you make $$$. You make more $$$ when people buy the DLC online. I really hate the way how some companies and their related parties think.

Witzbold

Holy crap people. All these songs were already on the iTunes music store. All they've done is write a list pointing to the songs that happens to correspond with the tracklisting in Rock Band.

If you wanted to buy all the songs before, it would have cost the same as it does now. This is perhaps the biggest non-issue in the history of non-issues.

dowingba

@Witzbold: Get the PS3 version?

y2kenjination

Why would... Nvm.

Allen750

"At .99 a song the whole catalog will set you back $73.26."

And they wonder why people steal music... : (

TheCakeIsALie

Apple takes 34 cents from every 99 cents but they run the site and administer the sales. I pay for CD's mostly because I listen to independent artist that should be payed for their music. Also it's 99 cents a song I can afford it.

Kinburn

@oblivionatm: Or honest enough...

To the guy above regarding iTunes charges, I'm sure they do take an ungodly amount out of the $1, but anywhere you buy music that will be true. The studios also take a giant cut and the artists are left with very little. However, thats still better than piracy. Imagine how you would feel if your work was stolen and you didn't receive anything for it.

In the end, there are plenty of things wrong with the music industry, but none of them justify piracy.

jetsmanfoley

If you're only picking 2, pick My Iron Lung and Creep. If you want the whole set, instead buy the entire Radiohead collection off there for like 80% of the price (I think...)

Communist_Gamer

I-Tunes, if you're dumb enough to pay for music, we'll sell it to you. (Now with 70% less suck!)

oblivionatm

what a ripoff. If I'm going to pay for music, it's either something obscure or something I can get on vinyl. If I own the actual game, in effect, I already payed for the music, therefor, I feel no guilt acquiring the tracks by other means. Yes I realize it's still illegal, but I'm a broke ass who is pinching pennies to get items that I care more about, such as video games. In summary, I would not buy this, but I actually don't care enough to get it illegally either. If I like this music, I would rather play it in the game.

shorty1k

Artists, here my cry! Skip the middle man, release your content for free and provice a 'donate through paypal' button on your website. I promise, more money will follow.

Verum

@LightStriker:

I don't pirate games but thanks for assuming that I do.

iamnotdryad

Meh, save your money and just buy more playable Rock Band tracks.

AnonymousNoob

bittorrent FTW!

rebelphoenix

I know this is off topic but my gf pointed to a site or a blog saying that apple takes like 90cents and leaves the artists with 9 cents per song and now they are argueing that them getting a measly 9 cents is still too much as its apple who is doing all the work of putting the album art together with the song and whatnot. Anyone know if this is true? if it is then doesnt it seem pretty usless if you want to support music so you buy thru itunes?

BryanGuitarDude

@LightStriker: Word.

mind in rewind

Also, know that not all the songs in the game are on there. A few are missing. It's just a compilation of all of the songs that are already on iTunes. Really actually, it isn't really anything different than what you could've done before on iTunes, it's just all official-like now.

Samos42

Here's to hoping Amazon does the same and under cuts them on price.

Dorphat: Approved!

@LightStriker: I don't pirate games, ever, nor music if there is another feasible option (I say that because there are a few Japanese songs which are literally impossible to import). And I always make sure the original artists get their money.

I wasn't encouraging piracy, just pointing out that it seemed like the Rock Band creators were, especially with that pricetag being higher than the game itself. That's all.

Makoto

Tell me when they are available as amazon mp3 downloads. I used to buy itunes songs and strip the drm but I'm tired of jumping through that hoop. (Especially after apple made it more difficult) I want to buy my music but I don't want any damn drm.

greeble

@mariogalaxyman: My thoughts exactly :p

NinjaBurg3r

@Makoto:

Maybe they should have offered ya know, a discount for buying 74 songs, perhaps?

Either way, iTunes blows.

Ignatius

I don't think anyone's seriously gonna pay the $73. They're going to cherrypick their favorite songs, to pick some they wanna take with them on the go.

When iTunes does mixes like this, they aren't honestly expecting people to pay the full price -- it's just a convenient way to pool together similar tracks into one selection list, so you don't have to search all over the store for the songs you want.

I've bought a number of songs for Rock Band. Many of them I got off iTunes, prior to getting the game, so I could get familiar with songs like Suffragette City, and learn the lyrics inside out. It was very handy and some of these songs still are on heavy rotation on the 'ol iPod.

Twoflower

@Luis:

Don't forget the $125 holding charge on your credit card while trying to get new equipment to replace your broken/defective stuff! ;D

Ignatius

@evilralphwiggum: What's wrong with torrents?

slomo788

@LightStriker: Video games are one of the things I would never pirate and I think a lot of people here wouldn't either

mariogalaxyman

@kcgig101:
Celebrating in being a thief?

DigitalHero

To all the idiot who post stuff like "Download them free" or "Limewire pwnz", you make me sick.
Because you're also the morons who will go pirate games.
Of course, you go without thinking of those who put a lot of time into making them.

LightStriker

What, no harmonix originals? Not interested until I can purchase songs from Honest Bob And The Factory-To-Dealer Incentives. :(

pgdz

people still pay for music?

iamnotdryad

youtorrent.com

mariogalaxyman

@Witzbold: Probably has more to do with the companies that own the songs than the makers of rockband itself.

ratba

@evilralphwiggum: nevermind, read ur post after i posted mine.

youngmike99

I wonder how many folks are going to buy that album though?

Witzbold

Im still bitter that they region locked this game so I cant play it. D:

Witzbold

@Makoto: @evilralphwiggum: ...Limewire?

youngmike99

@Makoto: "They put them on iTunes probably as an attempt to avoid piracy."

There really needs to be an edit button. x_x

Makoto

downloading albums is way to easy.
go to google.
type the album name.
also type rar.
then look for a rapidshare. or megaupload link..
and baam.
somebody uploaded that album.
and you can download it.
way to easy.
i don't mess with Torrents anymore.
or Limewire or anything like that.
this is all i do.
google search. album name. rar files.
simple as 1 2 3.
:-) then of course if the album is wonderful and i want to help the band i'd go and buy the cd..

evilralphwiggum

That seems counterintuitive. They put them on iTunes probably is an attempt to avoid piracy. But to charge almost $75 for the soundtrack? That's just going to encourage piracy.

Imagine 2 people playing Rock Band:
Person A: "Hey, this game actually has some pretty good music."
Person B: "Yeah, these songs are awesome. So awesome, in fact, I think I may just buy the soundtrack."
Person B goes to the internet, and finds the soundtrack on sale on iTunes.
B: "Hmm.... 99 cents per song, eh?"
A: "Yeah, that's standard iTunes price for any song on iTunes."
B: "Wait, hold on a second... 'Buy all songs, $73.26?!' No freakin' way am I paying that much, I don't care how awesome the songs are! Besides, I already paid for the songs in the game, why should I have to pay for them again?"
A: "Well, you could always pirate them illegally. They have sites just for that."
B: "Don't those kinds of sites tend to have all kinds of viruses and stuff?"
A: "Not always, man, you just have to know where to look."
Person A takes Person B to music download site.
B: "Thanks, man. I can't believe they charged that much... I'm all about supporting the artists, but that's just plain ridiculous!"
A: "No problem. There's more where that came from, too."

A software pirate is born.

Granted, there's not much that can be done, considering how strict iTunes is about their 99-cent song download charge, but it still seems like it encourages piracy.

Makoto

@phrequency: gah, i meant to say since the process in buying a song off itunes is pretty smooth. i guess it was just more convenient to use convenient twice.

phrequency

@mariogalaxyman:
I don't know. I think we should have a poll. I don't even pay for movies anymore, and I was thinking of stealing cable. The only thing I pay for is games.

gamadaya

@mariogalaxyman: i do. $.99 is pretty much nothing considering the convenience since itunes is pretty convenient, i just buy it off there if it's DRM-free.

phrequency

@Luis: Realizing you're hardcore: priceless

youngmike99

Ugh, I would be careful of what songs I buy, not all of them are Protected, some of the songs can be downloaded and put on any mp3 player, not all of them...

And usually when you buy all the songs, it's a steal ... but $73 dollars for 74 songs is ... no ... messed up.

ffmusicdj

@Rajio: it seems that the first platform to do it will take a huge step forward in the rhythm game war (setting aside everything else). i imagine it is probably somewhat costly too for the publishers because since the songs themselves are sort of "kept" inside the game, usability of the song is lower than if it were bought off itunes (where you can burn it to a cd, listen to it at work, play it at a party, etc.) i would imagine the music companies would want to tack-on an additional $xxx per song on the game if ea/mtv wanted a audio CD solution as an add-on in which case may potentially bloat the price by $.99 times the number of songs in the setlist.

that's just my guess.

phrequency

@gamadaya: Who even pays for music anymore?

mariogalaxyman

well you don't have to get the whole package. at the very least, it provides a sort of central place for rock band players to look for if they're already itunes shoppers and wanted to grab some songs they liked from the game. i'm assuming the covers are replaced with the original recording listing?

at least i for one grabbed foreplay/long time and i never have a day driving to work without that song playing at least once since. lol.

phrequency

i dont know why the game itself doesnt ship with some CDs or download codes for the mp3s. seems like marketing synergy for MS to offer zune dl codes for a game's soundtrack when you buy any game. why should we buy things twice after all.

Rajio

Good idea, now we're starting to realize Rock Band as a platform. Full game, $170, song downloads each week ~$5, iTunes songs $75. . . Oh my.

Luis

Or...you could...y'know...just play the game...

Redface, The Dark Messiah of Justice

@gamadaya: That comment angrifies the blood. *shakes fist*

mind in rewind

@gamadaya: High Five!

kcgig101

"At .99 a song the whole catalog will set you back $73.26." Or $0.00 if you just do it illegally ;)

gamadaya

They did the same thing with GUitar Hero...and it's still a ripoff

Hopanoe

Good list of songs, i got a few myself

mp1434