As part of Amazon’s monthly $5 MP3 album deals for February 2012, Van Halen‘s debut album Van Halen is on sale for only $5.

If you’d like a physical copy of Van Halen, the CD version is available for only $5.99.

The album, recorded in 1977 and released in 1978, unleashed such greatness upon the world in the form of “Running With the Devil,” “Ain’t Talkin’ “˜bout Love,” and Eddie Van Halen’s searing instrumental, “Eruption.” It earned Diamond status for selling more than 10,000,000 units and is still played in heavy rotation on classic rock radio stations across the country.

Browse the main sale page to see the other 99 albums on sale for only $5 each in MP3 format, but hurry, the sale ends at 11:59pm PST tonight!

Track Listing

1. Runnin’ with the Devil
2. Eruption (Instrumental)
3. You Really Got Me (Ray Davies)
4. Ain’t Talkin’ ’bout Love
5. I’m the One
6. Jamie’s Cryin’
7. Atomic Punk
8. Feel Your Love Tonight
9. Little Dreamer
10. Ice Cream Man (John Brim)
11. On Fire

Note – when you purchase MP3s through Amazon, it stores your purchases to Amazon’s Cloud Drive; from there you can stream the music right from their online player. Also, if you have a Kindle Fire, your MP3 purchases will automatically be available for you to stream on your device. All your purchases are backed up and available for you to download at any time. You can download the files to your computer to load to an MP3 device and to your iTunes account if you have one. If you’d like to gift these MP3 purchases, you can – just click the “Give album or song as gift” button on the right on the product page. From there you enter the recipient’s email address and then select either specific songs to gift or the entire album.