Music Game Question

So now that I have a bit more steady income, I think at some point soon I may go ahead and try to get one of those new-fangled rock-music games.  I won't be getting it in the next week or so, but once I've built up my bank account a bit more again, I'll get getting one of them.
Initially, since I don't know where I'd put the drums and other such things, and don't want to spend 170 on Rock Band, I figured I'd just get Guitar Hero III for the 360, and that'd be it.  But I recently realized it'd probably be cheaper to buy a used guitar hero II (or II for that matter) and a used copy of the game.  This of course made me think a bit more and I realized I could do the same thing but get a copy of Rock Band instead. 

So my question to all of you out there is which should I get? 

Since I probably won't be getting a set of drums anytime soon, and will probably mostly play single player for a while at least, is Rock Band as fun as Guitar Hero with just a guitar? 

Or is Guitar Hero the way to go for a more solitary experience?

Which one has more and better music (I'm counting down-loadable stuff here)?

Does one have more original artist recordings than the other?

Would I be better off getting Rock Band, with the idea that eventually I might get a microphone, and someone might bring over a drum set and or extra guitar (which I might eventually get anyway regardless of which game I get, so I can play with someone else).?

Any thoughts on either game would be much appreciated!

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davextreme
I think Rock Band is supposed to be a more robust game--more play modes, band customization, etc., but I don't know about its solo play. I know it releases more downloads more frequently than GH, but of course they cost money. My read of the community is that Rock Band is the better product, but I don't know how much of that is based on the multiplayer game.
DrOct
Thanks for the reply. I'm currrently kind of leaning toward Rock Band, but I've only had very limited exposure to either game, so I don't really know much about the single player or "campaign" modes in them, or how they play solo. I seem to remember Wil Wheaton saying a while back he thought Rock Band was better with friends and GH by yourself, but I don't know what that was based on, or if his and my taste in videogames are similar enough to really use that as a metric for which to buy.
xyt
You're completely discounting the microphone which is fun for people who don't normally play video games. If you could get your gf to sing while you Guitar then you can have sweet couple moments while she's doing her best Ozzy impression for War Pigs.

I can't comment on the GH career mode but I can say I find the single-player rock band pretty fun. You should ask people who have played both about the practice modes. I think the RB practice mode has more features which is helpful for guitarists struggling to learn tough solos and whatnot.
davextreme
Solo learning is my least favorite part of that type of game. It's where I think the games break down from being fun ways to play music and you can see that they're just simulations of instruments. When playing an instrument, if there's a hard lick of notes you need to master, you can just play those eight or ten notes over and over until you've got them, then move right along. With the video game, you're limited by how the simulation forces you to play, which can be frustrating.
DrOct
It's not so much that I was discounting the fun of the mic (or the drums) so much as I was looking to save money.

But now that I'm looking into it more, and the costs, I think I may just wait a bit longer, and save up a bit more and just get the full Rock Band kit, which looks like it won't be all that much more expensive than the plan I had looked at of just getting a guitar and the standalone game, which looks like it's likely to be at least $100, maybe more. (Especially since it seems that used guitars are not so easy to come by right now). So I might as well just save up a bit more and get the full set up, which will be more fun when I get lots of people together anyway.

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