Attention Wii owners

Springsteen fans who received Activision's best-selling videogame Guitar Hero: World Tour under their trees will soon receive a post-holiday gift from Bruce: the songs "Born To Run" and "My Lucky Day" will be available as free downloads for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii versions of the game from January 27 through February 4. After that time, the songs presumably will remain available for download at the standard cost of $2 per song. (Here's hoping these songs will also be made available for Rock Band, also by Guitar Hero creators Harmonix, so that fans can play Let’s-break-up-the-band-so-I-can-be-free-to-record-solo-and-with-other-musicians-but-later-reunite-for-a-stunning-second-phase.) Check out Steven Van Zandt’s May 2008 Time Magazine essay on the significance of GUITAR HERO and ROCK BAND here.