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Rock Band 2 Wii music store goes live, hell freezes over photo

Well, it's about damned time. Harmonix and MTV Games have launched the Rock Band music store for Rock Band 2 Wii. Finally.

Wii wannabe rockers can pick download 50 tracks, including the 20 free bonus tracks. The remaining 30 songs are only a portion of the hundreds of tracks already available to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 users, but it's a start. Yes, there are plans for the Wii music store to match that of what is available on the PS3 and Xbox 360 ... it just won't happen overnight.

Each track can be purchased individually for 200 Wii Points. There will be no discounted "track pack" bundles of multiple tracks, due mostly to how the Wii Shop allows content to be delivered. Speaking of which, your storage solution? An SD card, baby. Who'd have guessed it? For optimal performance, use SanDisk's Rock Band 2-branded SD card, of course. It's magical, and the only SD card that rocks.

The full list of available tracks can be found after the jump.

The 30 downloadable tracks for purchase include:  

ARTIST TITLE
30 Seconds to Mars The Kill
All-American Rejects Move Along
Avenged Sevenfold Afterlife
Black Tide Shockwave
Blink-182 All the Small Things
Blondie Call Me
Boston More Than a Feeling
Boston Rock & Roll Band
Disturbed Inside the Fire
Fall Out Boy This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
Jimmy Buffett Cheeseburger in Paradise
Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man
Metallica And Justice For All
Motley Crue Saints of Los Angeles
Muse Hysteria
Nine Inch Nails The Perfect Drug
Oasis Wonderwall
Papa Roach Time is Running Out
Paramore Crushcrushcrush
Red Hot Chili Peppers Snow (( Hey Oh ))
Rush Working Man (vault edition)
Serj Tankian Beethoven's C***
Smashing Pumpkins Zero
Stone Temple Pilots Interstate Love Song
Stone Temple Pilots Sex Type Thing
The Offspring Hammerhead
The Police Message in a Bottle
The Who Baba O'Riley
Weezer Buddy Holly
Weezer El Scorcho
 

The 20 free Rock Band 2 tracks include:

ARTIST TITLE
The 88 Sons & Daughters
Authority Zero No Regrets
Between the Buried & Me Prequel to the Sequel
Cab, The Bounce
Chevelles The, Get It On
The Cocktail Slippers Give it to Me
Dealership Database Corrupted
Endeverafter I Wanna Be Your Man
Ghost Hounds Ashes to Fire
Hollywood Undead Young
Kutless The Feeling
The Len Price 3 If I Ain't Got You
Lesley Roy I'm Gone I'm Going
Opiate for the Masses Burn You Down
Semi-Precious Weapons Magnetic Baby
Shaimus Like a Fool
thenewno2 Crazy Tuesday
Tickle Me Pink The Time is Wrong
Underoath Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
X Japan I.V.

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Jonathan Holmes's Avatar
Jonathan Holmes at 01/14/2009 08:50
Guitar Hero: World Tour on the Wii just got saaaaaaaaaacked.
NotAZombie's Avatar
NotAZombie at 01/14/2009 08:54
@ Holmes

Aww yeahhh.
zombiekiller13's Avatar
zombiekiller13 at 01/14/2009 09:11
Well, at least they delivered on what they promised. Awesome for people who only have a Wii.
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DanGale at 01/14/2009 10:04
So what are the compatibility issues with Rock Band 2? Will my Guitar Hero III guitar work with it? I'm definitely getting Guitar Hero: Metallica. Will the World Tour drums work with both Rock Band 2 and GH: Metallica? Or will the Rock Band 2 drums work with both?

Man, this is a headache.
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BluDesign at 01/14/2009 10:11
Hey cool. At least all the Wii songs are decent on launch. My only concern is... How big would all these songs end up being after all is said and done? Downloading them all seems like it would swallow up the 2GB card and then some.
megaStryke's Avatar
megaStryke at 01/14/2009 10:18
@Jonathan Holmes

Geeeee Iiiiiii Joooooooooe!
Da5StarRMD's Avatar
Da5StarRMD at 01/14/2009 10:24


oh and DanGale, why don't you do a little research? Those questions were answered ages ago...ASS....lolz jk...
dadudebob's Avatar
dadudebob at 01/14/2009 10:26
got all the free songs and 3 pay 1s, ended up having to delete my gh:wt songs, but ordered a 2gb card for the rb2 songs.songs i got were Jimmy Buffett, The Who, and Blondie.
@dvddesign:the songs are average 200 blocks, some under, some over, but the game needs you to have 200 system memory for them
@dangayle: you can use the gh controllers on rb2, but not the first 1 or track packs, no rb controllers on gh though
DanGale's Avatar
DanGale at 01/14/2009 10:38
Sorry, Da5Star, however in my defence it is very confusing. Especially considering the GHIII/RB compatibility was different across the consoles. :)

Thanks dadudebob, guess I'll buy the GH drums then.
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dadudebob at 01/14/2009 11:08
i forgot to mention how smooth the downloading went, it only asks once when you start up the game if you wanna move the songs to sd, unlike gh:wt. the transfer rate is so much faster on rb, gh takes forever:(
@dangale: im not sure you can buy the gh wt instruments separately, i made that mistake when i got the game only, i would of liked the new guitar but owell, i guess ill wait
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John B at 01/14/2009 11:14
@dadudebob:

The Best Buys in my area are only selling the GH:WT guitars. I have yet to find the Wii drum kit except at Wal-Mart which I refuse to support. So, I would assume that the drum kit is available separately as well. I already have the GH3 guitar, so I opted to just buy the game. Those additional fret buttons don't really justify a $60 purchase to me.
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Holyetheline at 01/14/2009 12:23
They're probably easing into it because they're not sure how much money they will make off of Wii owners for DLC.
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njsykora at 01/14/2009 12:33
@Holyetheline

Nah, they are getting the rest up, they already said they were in an interview snippet Samit posted a little while ago. I think this is just to get the ball rolling and have something there sooner rather than later.
lucashoal's Avatar
lucashoal at 01/14/2009 13:24
There is Jimmy Buffet DLC. There IS a god.
sumdawg's Avatar
sumdawg at 01/14/2009 14:43
bout time, now I might actually buy it for my wii...maybe.
Matthew Blake's Avatar
Matthew Blake at 01/14/2009 16:39
Downloaded two of the free songs, might pull out some cash for some Weezer. Good news, overall.
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