[wastedyears]

It’s only chapter 11, but still sucks to see, even if their “deals” are garbage.

[shaven_llama]

Meh, I buy all my stuff from Sweetwater these days.

[DAC21]

You would think business would be brisk with all the stay at homes looking for a new hobby / develop skill??

[Drew68]

Why do I suspect GC's problems had little to do with the fake pandemic and more to do with, oh, wait...

"The company was acquired by Bain Capital, the private equity firm, in 2007 for $1.9 billion. But, like many such deals, the buyout left Guitar Center heavily indebted just as online rivals began to emerge. To reduce the debt load, some of Guitar Center’s debt was converted to equity, making Ares Management the majority shareholder in 2014."

As a guitar player myself, I remember when you could barely walk through a Guitar Center without tripping over a guitar. These days, there's ample vacant space on the shelves (where guitars used to hang). The change happened, oh, around a decade or so ago.

[Larry Lucido]

I got my first real six string at the five and dime.

[nralife]

A non-NY Slimes source:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/us-retailer-guitar-center-files-for-bankruptcy

[left that other site]

Ping to the Guitar List! (Finally!)

[SamAdams76]

[pepsi_junkie]

Guitar Center sucks, it's expensive but in many areas, like mine, there is almost nowhere else to go to actually play a guitar before you buy it (not counting direct person-to-person sales like Craigslist). They killed the little mom and pops off.

That said, Reverb.com has destroyed Guitar Center. It's cheaper with much better variety and the photos are waaaay better than the silhouettes you get on Guitar Center's site. For a while I was running a guitar shop on Reverb and I was doing pretty well. They added sales tax and then raised their fees and there's no money in it for me anymore but I made enough to totally pay for the two sort of high end guitars I own (I only own two). Worked out okay for me!

[OL Hickory]

GET WOKE>>>>GO BROKE!!

[Mariner]

Weird considering Gibson and Fender are having one of their best years in decades, forestalling BK.

[max americana]

I go to the Guitar Center here in Hollywood. NSometimes it’s Nadine’s and they have almost the same history as GC. It’s like going to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Signed pictures from Metallica’s Hetfield etc line the walls and every clerk know their stuff. If I need something quick and money’s not an option I go there first before Nadine’s.

[sauropod]

been hearing about this.

Sometimes mass marketing doesn’t.

[doorgunner69]

The future is computer generated drum tracks and the like.

Learn to play an instrumnet sounds like work to a millennial.

[Clemenza]

Meh. Manny’s and Sam Ash were much better back in the day. Showing my east coast bias here.

[Poser]

One of mine (1971 Les Paul Custom)

[fedupjohn]

I buy from American Musical Supply

[HP8753]

Bought a beat up 6 string, In a second hand store. Didn’t know how to play it......

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Guitar Center, the Walmart of music stores. They suck.