RB2 Wii DLC ASAP

Harmonix announced today that the Wii version of the Rock Band 2 Music Store has finally gone live, supplying players with 20 free downloadable songs, as well as 30 other pay-to-download tunes. The songs will be sold for 200 Wii Points apiece ($2), equivalent to the price on other systems, and can be stored on, and streamed directly from, an SD card, to avoid hassles with the Wii system’s limited memory. Beginning in February, Harmonix will be releasing new songs for the Wii weekly, along with a selection of songs from the back catalog, until all songs are available on Wii as well as on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.

The following songs are currently available for purchase:

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 following 20 songs are available free to all owners of Rock Band 2:

The 88 "Sons & Daughters"
Authority Zero "No Regrets"
Between the Buried & Me "Prequel to the Sequel"
The Cab "Bounce"
The Chevelles "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."

For a complete list of songs available for Rock Band 2, check out rockband.com/music.

While the 20 free songs are only alright for me, the selection of pay tunes is quite excellent, in my opinion. Good to see this update didn’t take too long.