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11:00 AM on 06.28.2009, Jim Sterling

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Get Michael Jackson's Thriller for free on Xbox Live photo

#Music #Xbox 360 #Xbox Live

For the first time since Michael Jackson's death, we actually have something relevant to talk about that concerns him. This is great news for the various game blogs that keep trying to find excuses to mention his name in a bid to score some cheap pageview s. Xbox Live has decided to pay a subtle tribute to the Smooth Criminal, as US Xbox Live customers can download the video for "Thriller" at no extra cost.

Unfortunately, it seems that this is a US-only offer, as the SD version of the music video still costs European Xbox owners 200 Microsoft Points. Still, if you're in the United States and don't feel that the television networks have been playing Thriller enough times, you can download this little beauty right now.

[Thanks, Doyle]

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39 comments | showing # 1 to 39

Chronic Logic

Just a video? Couldn't you just watch it on youtube or something? They should release Michael Jackson's Moonwalker game for free on Xbox Live.
[img]http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/moonwalker/moonwalker.jpg{/img]

Chronic Logic

God damn typo.
[img]://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/moonwalker/moonwalker.[/img]

DrunkyDerek

Yeah that's cool I guess but I think it's a cheap move to make people pay for the rest of the videos. Nice way for Microsoft to profit off of someone's death. Besides , I can watch all those videos for free on Yahoo or anywhere else on the net anyway.

13thDragon

I agree, we should get the Moonwalker game on the Arcade.

Chronic Logic

You know what? Fuck the picture.

Slique

I'm still waiting for Michael to reanimate and take to the streets in a burst of syncronised dance.

Blasto

@ DrunkyDerek

How is a free video profitting? Is it only free if you download a paid video first? No, no it's not. Cynical much?

Kris S

@DrunkyDerek
Sony fanboy by any chance? Weirdest comment ever

DrunkyDerek

@Blasto
I'm not talking about the Thriller video, I'm talking about the rest of MJ's video's they have up there. Like Smooth Criminal , Bad, Beat It, yada yada. I just don't like the idea of paying for music videos when I can get em free online.

@Kris S
Sony Fanboy? lol, that is funny. I'm not a fan of fanboys for any system. And I own XBox 360

sicPOS

Billy Mays died this morning! RIP

DrunkyDerek

@sicPOS

holy crap, celebrities are dropping left and right.

Mr Wrighty 987

Damn sex offenders

Professor Pew

Waste of space!

Tarvu

I will be trying to get this in the UK with my American account, because I can.

John B

Downloaded! Anyone who can't at least appreciate the historic place of this video in rock history is wearing some serious blinders.

KensterFox

Is it the full 13-minute short film?

Davram

Can I have free videos of me touching myself made available for free too?

Davram

-free

Discarded Couch Sandwich

I'll watch it again on the new PS3 Music Video service later, as well as the mass of Michael Jackson tribute shows which look like they've been thrown together in about five minutes!

Uber Mashu

To pre-empt every "I can watch it on youtube or vidzone comment for free anyway" said and forthcoming, shut up. We get it. Live however likes to charge us for stuff. On this occasion, it's nice that they've chosen not to. Now Sssh. I've read far too many comments today saying just that.

I'm a sucker for freebies. Let me bask in my cheapness.

pedrovay2003

It's cool that they're honoring MJ like that. Free is always good.

Also, it'd be nice if this hits the PSN, too, so I can actually take it off my system and bring it somewhere if I want.

Lord Helmet

Just checked this - XBOX Live wants to charge me 160 points. I found this page on the XBOX website:
http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/videos/media/fbed879f-75ab-451b-a0e5-252dcdea61e2/?p=1&of=0&bt=0&sb=1

...and while it lists it as free, it says that "This offer is not valid in your region, or it has expired." I'm in the US, so this seems wrong. Is it because I'm a lowly silver?

giraffywaffy

I just tried downloading it for shits and giggles, and it still seems to cost 160 microsoft points.

HarassmentPanda

Yup, it's coming up @ 160 points for me too. Was this an extremely short lived promotion?

JLanphear

I would've got this for free. . . because it's the THRILLAH. . . but not for 160 points.

Fuck that.

Jim Sterling

Weird. I checked it this morning and it was free.

giraffywaffy

It still says its free on xbox.com, but like Lord Helmet, it states the offer isn't valid in my region or the deal is expired.
I too live in the US

Lord Helmet

I just went back to that website, and now it too says it costs 160 points.

What the hell, Microsoft?

Mr Melancholy

Under the moonlight you see something that almost stops your heart/

ParaParaKing

YEAH! Let's honor the King of Pop by using his death as advertisement.

Nitex

Thriller sucks 10 year old dick, just like MJ.

aborto thefetus

when exactly is this happening because I just checked and it still costs money to download it.

Grasshopper7

Thriller is always a really bitchin video.
My one wish for dead rising 2 is an unlockable zombie dance sequence.
Think about it.

Interstate78

@Nitex: if you were the parent of a kid who was molested, would you:

a- ask for money
b- beat the shit out of Jackson

The obvious answer is b, but the parents (who already had sued somebody else for 150,000$ for child molestation) chose a). Now there was a trial, during which a "victim" fled the country to avoid having to testify. Oh, and he was found not guilty.

Think about that.

10BobMarleys

@ Interstate 78: Pretty sure he settled out of court, dude. That's different to being not guilty.

Interstate78

First time yeah but the second time he was found not guilty

aerofan11

@Nitex - You have no taste in music whatsoever if that's what you really think of "Thriller".

The-Excel

A video about zombies made by a dead guy. How appropriate.

BattyAdroit

Nitex is part of the cancer that ruins the internet for the rest of us.

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