Posts Tagged ‘Guitar Center’

THIS SHOULD MAKE EYAL HAPPY

Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 3:45pm by Axl Rosenberg

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Our boy Bram Teitelman at Metal Insider reports that Guitar Center – a.k.a. “the bane of Eyal Levi’s existence” – is now the defendant in a class action lawsuit, along with the National Association of Music Merchants (you know them as NAMM). See, as it turns out, those fuckers (I guess I should say “allegedly”) conspired to fix the prices of fretted instruments, even go so far as to as to attempt “to quash competition from online retailers by threatening to boycott manufacturers selling through online competitors.” Very nice.

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JUMPING DARKNESS PARADE: DAATH’S EYAL LEVI ON GUITAR CENTER

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at 4:30pm by Eyal Levi

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Who here likes going to Guitar Center? The Kmart of music supplies. Going there always pisses me off because I get some dude in a button up silk shirt with embroidered flames shooting up it trying to convince me how the latest Crate amp is gonna blow the roof off the house. I JUST NEED SOME STRINGS AND SOME PICKS. Why does everything there take so goddamn long? I swear, it takes me an average of forty-five minutes to just buy a pack of picks.

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