Not necessarily true - this is still going to sell a shit ton of copies, because people think GH came first so it's best...ignoring the fact that HMX made GH.

Looking at the VGChartz figures, it seems that GH sales are pretty steadily declining. Fewer and fewer people are buying the games based on name recognition alone, with GH5 selling much worse than GH:WT. I'd expect the trend to continue with GH: Fantasy Bullshit.

One can hope - but there are still scores of fanboys out there who eat, sleep and shit Guitar Hero and piss all over RB any chance they get.

Sure, there are definitely GH fanboys out there, but I think that even their numbers are decreasing.

I hope to get some GH answers in my Super Twitter Poll! to see rationale.

August DLC

8/3 - The Used
The Taste of Ink
The Bird and the Worm
Pretty Handsome Awkward

8/10 - Sum 41
Fat Lip
In Too Deep
Still Waiting

8/17 - Weezer
Beverly Hills
Pork and Beans
Island in the Sun

8/24 - Megadeth
Symphony of Destruction
Hangar 18
Peace Sells

8/31 - P.O.D.
Southtown
Youth of the Nation
Boom

Pretty Handsome Awkward was one of my faves in GHIII.

http://oneofswords.com/2010/08/buy-g...en-album-free/

Still not interested.

So you get a $10 album free?

Yeah, giving away a free $60 game with GH5 didn't help, this won't either.

Just came to post that same news. It just feels like they're all trying too hard.

I mean, I liked Soundgarden in 1995 and I liked Temple of the Dog. But I don't feel any desire to buy that album or have it bundled be enough to entice me into a purchase I wasn't already going to make.

I'm hard headed, fuck you all. Still not getting this. (well, still not paying for this)

I want those tracks in Rock Band. I don't want to play them in Guitar Hero. Probably going to be some awesome stuff on that retrospective.

Oh, it's just a greatest hits album? That's better for the game, but really less impactful as a necessary album pack-in.

Near as I can tell, this is the tracklist:

What? No "Big Dumb Sex"?

From what I understand, you get the album (CD) free, but you still have to pay for the DLC. This is from the USA Today article..

That's my take as well.

So yeah, a $10 cd of greatest hits that most people probably already have.

On the flip side of the coin, at least they aren't charging $70 for it and calling it a Collector's Edition.

Well..it's certainly not as brilliant as giving away a copy of a yet to be released version of the game to the only people that would probably buy it off the shelf.

You would have thought with Matt Cameron being in Pearl Jam, he could have had some influence on the other SG band members to let them know that ROCK BAND was the much better music game choice....

As a giant SG fan, I guess I have no choice but to get this silly game now....not for the "free CD" though (as I'll probably be buying the deluxe edition anyway), but to download and play all those SG songs....I'll wait until a price drop at least though!

It's an album of re-records though, right?

No, it is a new compilation/retrospective with one previously unreleased track, "Black Rain", which was recorded during the Badmotorfinger sessions...

Apparently Chris has added some new vocal parts to that track, but all the others are the originals...the deluxe 2 CD/1 DVD version will feature a few live and alternate tracks, but the regular 1 CD version only has all the standard studio tracks...

Woops.

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Per PlasticAxe these are the previously unannounced tracks.

http://www.plasticaxe.com/2010/08/06...list-revealed/

Aerosmith Cryin’
Anberlin Feel Good Drag
Arch Enemy Nemesis
Band of Skulls I Know What I Am
Blind Melon Tones of Home
Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son
The Dillinger Escape Plan Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants
Flyleaf Again
Interpol Slow Hands
Neil Young Rockin’ In The Free World
Nickelback How You Remind Me
Orianthi Suffocated
Phoenix Lasso
Queensr˙che Jet City Woman
Red Rider Lunatic Fringe
R.E.M. Losing My Religion
Rx Bandits It’s Only Another Parsec…
Slash feat. Ian Astbury Ghost
Tesla Modern Day Cowboy
Third Eye Blind Graduate
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Listen to Her Heart
The Vines Get Free

Right in the middle is a song called "There's No Secrets This Year"!

Damn, Tones of Home is a great fucking track. And I was just wishing this morning about some Red Rider coming to rock band.

Still - not enough to make me spend $60 though.