p2pnet news | Games:- Pretty soon, Rockstar fans will have music to “pick up hookers to”.

Amazon is “lending” its music download operation to Take-Two Interactive so it’ll be able to rent tunes on Rockstar Grand Theft Auto IV —- at a hefty price.

Songs will mostly be streamed, “through the radio stations of various cars that the playable character can steal and drive around the city while conducting missions,” says Billboard, going on:

Players tag songs via an in-game” mobile phone interface” and by dialing “cheekily-named,” as Gaming Today calls it, ZiT-555-0100.”

Isn’t a zit a nasty pimple?

Anyway, “Players then will get a message via the in-game phone with the artist’s name, song name, etc.”

Take-Two is even starting an online Rockstar Games Social Club, says the story.

That should be Anti-Social Club, of course.

“Although the songs downloaded will not be accessible outside the game, with over 150 tracks for the GTA IV soundtrack alone, you will have ample music to crash, kill, maim, cruise and pick up hookers to,” says Gaming Today. “How awesome is that?”

Tunes will cost players between 90 cents and $1 to rent.

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Grand Theft Auto IV – Grand Theft Auto IV — with strip clubs, January 31, 2008
Billboard – Grand Theft Auto IV Soundtrack on Amazon, March 31, 2008
Gaming Today – Amazon and Rockstar Team Up to Bring You MP3 Downloads Via GTA IV, March 28, 2008

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