That's actually a really good idea, shame they used such a crap plasticky turntable and charge £120.00 for it.
For £100.00 you can actually buy a reasonable turntable and for £20.00 you can buy a stereo RIAA preamp which you can plug into your sound card line in input.
And the Audacity software is a free download.
It's just marketing to the masses, is all.
To be fair, what with the USB input, if you're a dork, it may be for you.
I use a Hitachi direct drive turntable circa 1981, Shure 75C cartridge and an RS phono pre-amp. Captured with dbPoweramp.
Also have a Dual 505 turntable here, but it's rarely used.