Guitar Center files for bankruptcy
Very bad news imo.<p>Having everything flow into a Amazon Monopoly of retail isn't great. Even just going in the stores to talk and get a literal feel for instruments is great.<p>The biggest issue with online retail is it erodes one of the last community functions. Particularly for older Americans retail shopping might be their only social interaction all day.<p>If 2050 is this dystopia where everything is ordered online, all food is dropped off by drones, it's going to be very bleak.<p>That said retail, particularly non essential retail ( my various instruments are all effectively toys, I'd guess the working musician to hobbyist ratio to easily be 1:100) is getting hit hard. No one NEEDS a news 1500$ Gibson.<p>Edit : Worth while to add a with concerts being shut down the professional market is effectively dead as well.  I wouldn't count on this returning until late 2021 at best