Castaneda’s Music Center

==8 Good Reasons To Shop At Castaneda’s==
1. It’s not Guitar Center.
2. It’s not Sam Ash.
3. The staff is motivated not by a need to make quota, but an ever-​present fear of going out of business.
4. They know fuck all about the latest in trendy overpriced American guitars. I’m sure this fact would count as a detriment in the other 99 percent of musicians, but I personally get tired of hearing some overeager salesdouche explain to me the differences between the 2008 Les Paul Junior and the Jackson King V. They both have six strings, make noise and are endorsed by annoying, overrated prima donna rock stars what sold their asses to the biggest dick at the first mention of MTV exposure. Moving on.
5. They sell maracas. I don’t know why it’s so hard to find maracas these days but they have them.
6. I have a slight suspicion that the employees are also musicians. I can’t be sure though. They’re usually too busy selling and fixing guitars to serenade me with a cover of «Every Rose Has Its Thorn» or to show me this sick new riff they wrote. Yeah, I have that issue of Guitar World Magazine too, dude. I’m onto you.
7. Their knowledge of music extends beyond what they’ve seen or heard on Guitar Hero II. Even if they don’t have an upright bass in the store, they will concur with me that they do indeed exist in the meatspace. You fail again, Guitar Center!
8. If you have some change left over from your purchase, there is always a guy in the parking lot in a truck willing to sell you watermelons that he definitely did not steal from another truck for $ 1.