meanwhile...

in the world of legal downloading, the superfantasticamazing soundtrack to the Game of The Year 2009 wiiware title, Bit.Trip:Beat, has been made available on iTunes. It doesn't look worth ten bucks though.

Most of the tracks are the 10 second innterludes before levels (so short, you can listen to the whole thing in preview on iTunes), and they expect you to pay a dollar for each one! The credits song by Bit Shifter is also charged, despite being available free from the artist on the web. Finally, and worst of all, the three main songs of the game are only 3-4 minutes long, instead of being the epic 10 minute versions as they are in the game. Huge disappointment. Please give us a better soundtrack for core, Gaijin!