How much money have you spent on music (itunes, etc.) because of Rock Band?

[White_PawZ]

This is an interesting topic for me. One of the things you hear a lot about music games is that they get people to buy music through other avenues as well. For example, Aerosmith not only made a ton of $$ off of their game, but also saw their sales on itunes almost triple after the game came out. Why any band would be against these games is beyond me.

But this brings me to the question: how often have you purchased music because you played the song in RB and enjoyed it?

For me, I must have spent at least $200-$250 on itunes because of bands/songs that I liked in the game (I keep all my music on the computer so I can stream it to every room in my apartment). In my experience, I have probably purchased just as many songs from in-game bands that are not actually in the game as well. In short, the game has been a great addition to experiencing music overall.

Things that come to mind right away for me are buying a 40 song Roy Orbison anthology, about 30 Grateful Dead songs, a whole bunch of Bad Company, Journey, The Allman Brothers, and The James Gang. And I already had a TON of classic rock in my collection so that has been really cool to get turned on to some great stuff I hadn't thought of or had forgotten I liked (Allman Brothers).

It's amazing. 5-7 years ago people didn't buy music anymore. Now many people buy TWO different versions of the same song (itunes/other digital format and rhythm game).

[Alvarado6411]

phew, like iunno hundreds!

Every song I like that comes out on RB I go out and buy that album on vinyl. Because of RB my vinyl collection has grown 90%

I think because of how RB is organized with the album art made me want to have that album art in a big way.

[White_PawZ]

Alvarado,

That is a good point. It's the one thing I messed up on when I started putting all my music from CD's onto the computer (mostly for ease of playing). For some dumb reason I just put all the songs from an artist into the same folder without separating them into albums as well (now I do organize them by album but it has taken a long time to go back and re-organize).

When I listened to Pink Floyd this was really noticeable... Part of "Another Brick in the Wall" followed by "Time" and "Mother" was getting really weird...

[Manbreasts]

People still buy songs?

[overdriveguitarman]

People still buy songs?

No they eat them

[AndywinXp]

People still buy songs?

Yeah, they still?

[White_PawZ]

Not everyone is a thief?

[Ragin_Caucasion]

Let's see...

Colors by BtBaM
...And Justice for All by Metallica
Fall of Ideals by All That Remains
Blood Mountain by Mastodon
Cleansing by Prong
Machine Head by Deep Purple

There's also albums influenced by other rhythm games:
Reign in Blood by Slayer
Bang Camaro (self-titled)
That Handsome Devil (self-titled EP)

I'm also not counting multiple albums by one artist, as that was the first album I bought influencing me more.

So about $90. Man... thank goodness most of those were bought with birthday money.

[cmg4894]

A couple of hundred. Most songs I like in RB I already have. But I have snagged a few songs from family over the last year or so and like listening to it so much I went out and bought the CD.

[Sayburr]

Yeah, most of the "classic" stuff I already had but I have bought several CDs because of Rock Band:

Both Bang Camaro discs
Black Tide CD
cough Crooked X's Adrenaline
Garbage... which surprised me that I had not heard the band before RB. AND I cheated and have only got the best of Absolute Garbage
Locksley's "Don't Make Me Wait"

Not sure how much that equates to in cash...

Oh, and I am set in my ways... I have to buy the CD.