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Microsoft recently announced that it’s Zune portable media player would retail for $249.95 and come preloaded with a variety of free audio and video content. The company also announced that the Zune digital media player and online service will be available to consumers in the U.S. on Nov. 14, 2006.

The player will ship with these music videos pre-loaded:

• 30 Seconds to Mars, “The Kill” (Virgin Records)
• BT, “1.618” (DTS Entertainment)
• Chad VanGaalen, “Red Hot Drops” (Sub Pop Records)
• Coldcut featuring Roots Manuva, “True Skool” (Ninja Tune)
• CSS, “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above” (Sub Pop Records)
• Fruit Bats, “Live: The Wind That Blew My Heart Away” (Sub Pop Records)
• Grandaddy, “Elevate Myself” (V2)
• Hot Chip, “Over and Over” (Astralwerks Records)
• Kraak & Smaak featuring Dez., “Keep Me Home” (Quango Music Group)
• Kinski, “Live: The Snowy Parts of Scandinavia” (Sub Pop Records)
• Paul Oakenfold, “Faster Kill Pussycat (Featuring Brittany Murphy)” (Maverick Records)
• Serena-Maneesh, “Drain Cosmetics” (Playlouderecordings)

But why wait to check out the free videos? You can check out most of them right now:

30 Seconds to Mars, “The Kill”

Chad VanGaalen, “Red Hot Drops”

Coldcut featuring Roots Manuva, “True Skool”

CSS, “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above”

Grandaddy, “Elevate Myself”

Hot Chip, “Over and Over”

Kraak & Smaak featuring Dez., “Keep Me Home”

Paul Oakenfold, “Faster Kill Pussycat (Featuring Brittany Murphy)”

Serena-Maneesh, “Drain Cosmetics”