As part of Amazon’s monthly $5 MP3 album deal for March 2012, The Human League‘s Essential is on sale for only $5.

If you’d like a physical copy of Essential, the CD version is available for $15.08.

Bop around memory lane with this 15-track best-of compilation from one of the forerunners of British New Wave electronica. The Human League dominated the charts in the 1980s with such hits as “Don’t You Want Me, Baby,” “Human,” and “(Keep Feeling) Fascination” and have been sampled by such varying artists as George Michael and KMFDM, and notable dance music samplers, Utah Saints and Ministry of Sound.

Browse the main sale page to see the other 99 albums on sale for only $5 each in MP3 format through the end of March 2012.

Track Listing

1. Don’t You Want Me (2002 – Remaster)
2. Love Action (I Believe In Love)
3. Open Your Heart
4. The Sound Of The Crowd
5. Mirror Man
6. (Keep Feeling) Fascination
7. The Lebanon (7″ Version)
8. Life On Your Own
9. Together In Electric Dreams
10. Louise
11. Human (2003 – Remaster)
12. Heart Like A Wheel
13. Being Boiled (2003 – Remaster)
14. Empire State Human (2003 – Remaster)
15. Don’t You Know I Want You

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.