Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Dear Guitar Center

Remind me again how you explained the benefit of squeezing all of the mom and pop instrument shops out of business. Was it to provide a better service, with more selection and better trained employees? Was that it? Because you failed. If everytime i go to your store i have to order something to be shipped to the store, your existence as a brick and mortar establishment is completely useless. You should save a truckload of money, close your stores, and switch all sales to online. This would allow people actually passionate about music to open a few independent shops that carry some legitimately interesting products outside of the influence of Gibson and Fender.

As a side note, i have nothing against what those two companies have accomplished over the years. There was a time when they made legitimately good products and sold them at honest prices. I do have a problem with their current product line which consists of artificial feeling and sounding shit and equipment that's actually wonderful but priced so high it makes me cringe to peek at the tags.

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