Guitar Center

I really don't like Guitar Center. The main reason has generally been being surrounded by at least ten egotistic jerks playing metal at ear-splitting volume simultaneously, as if they don't have a guitar at home. Are they shopping, or hoping to get scouted?

Anyway, I went in a week ago to buy a replacement plug for my guitar cable. I later found out the replacement looked different that the broken one, so I decided to go back and exchange it for a different and ask for some help. When I asked the salesman (an appropriate title for sure) he said "why don't you just buy a new one?". I told him this was a nice and expensive cable I got as a gift from a former bandmate and I didn't want to just throw it away. He replies, "you know, we sell Monster Cables! You could just buy one of those". I was pretty frustrated at that point and explained that I was trying to avoid that. He obviously wasn't listening. I did mention I needed a short cable for an effects pedal, and AGAIN, he tried to sell me a Monster Cable and told me about the "warranty". I hate when people see buying something new as a better solution to fixing something of value.

Also, J Church has a song called Guitar Center. It's not one of their better songs, but here's an old quote from Lance via the website that explains it:

" It's partly a friendly joke on Rocket From The Crypt and the myriad of San Diego bands that try to copy the John Reese sound. We really did our best to make a San Diego sounding song. But it's also about the horror of going to a guitar centre and having to be surrounded by all the losers. Especially the ones that work there with the mullet haircuts and the leather ties. A pretty a-typical sounding song for us."