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I hate to tell anyone to go to a Best Buy (the customer service at the one in my area blows, so therefore all Best Buy’s blow, however, I am sure there are a bunch of other reasons to dislike the store), anyways, they have Rock Band in stores now! Obviously not all locations, but Rock Band is awesome enough to warrant a trip to a store to find out if they have a demo set up to try, or just grab your cell, hit up the store locator, and ask if the one you live by has it. I am not sure if the release of Guitar Hero III at some Best Buy’s staying up past midnight last night to sell it will interfere with a demo for a different game in the same genre, but I doubt they have any loyalty to a specific game (especially after seeing that image above on Kotaku)

The demo is said to have 15 playable tracks along with the full drum/guitar/mic set up, so it might even be worth picking up a few friends on your way to the store, and then head back here and email us what tracks were playable. For now, enjoy a current full list of what songs have made the cut for the final release of the game after the break (separated by decade, thanks to IGN):

1960s
Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter”

1970s
Aerosmith “Train Kept a Rollin’”*
The Who “Won’t Get Fooled Again”
Boston “Foreplay/Long Time”
Mountain “Mississippi Queen” (cover)
The Police “Next to You”
David Bowie “Suffragette City”
Black Sabbath “Paranoid” (cover)
Blue Oyster Cult “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop”
Deep Purple “Highway Star”
KISS “Detroit Rock City”
Molly Hatchet “Flirtin’ With Disaster”
The Outlaws “Green Grass & High Tides” (cover)
Sweet “Ballroom Blitz” (cover)

1980s
Rush “Tom Sawyer”*
Bon Jovi “Wanted Dead or Alive”
The Clash “Should I Stay or Should I Go”
Faith No More “Epic”
R.E.M. “Orange Crush”
Pixies “Wave of Mutilation”
Iron Maiden “Run to the Hills” (cover)

1990s
Foo Fighters “Learn to Fly”
Metallica “Enter Sandman”
Nirvana “In Bloom”
Stone Temple Pilots “Vasoline”
Weezer “Say It Ain’t So”
Smashing Pumpkins “Cherub Rock”
Radiohead “Creep”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Hole “Celebrity Skin”
Garbage “I Think I’m Paranoid”
Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun”

2000s
The Hives “Main Offender”
Queens of the Stone Age “Go With the Flow”
The Strokes “Reptilia”
Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl”
OK Go “Here It Goes Again”
Nine Inch Nails “The Hand That Feeds”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Maps”
Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California”
Coheed & Cambria “Welcome Home”
Fallout Boy “Dead on Arrival”
The Killers “When You Were Young”
New Pornographers “Electric Version”

Unlockable Tracks
Bang Camaro “Pleasure (Pleasure)”
Twelve more yet to be revealed

Announced DLC (hopefully won’t be $2 a song!)
the entire Who’s Album “Who’s Next,”
Metallica - One”
18 songs by The Grateful Dead (Including “Truckin’,” “Uncle John’s Band,” “Touch of Grey,” “Sugar Magnolia,” and “Casey Jones.”)

The following DLC is rumored or has not been confirmed:
Nirvana - Nevermind (full album)
Metallica - unknown full albums (rumor in Game Informer)

After the release of the game, every week will come new tracks to download.
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Rock Band, Best Buy, Demo