actually unless you're a professional musician, playability matters. how good it feels. no matter how much you spend it's not gonna sound really good unless the player's really good, which i'm not, and then you need a kickass amp, which i'm not paying for. so basically none of your arguments make any sense, and these do actually sound very good for the price, and feel excellent. have a little faith in me that i've done my homework...i've done it plenty enough when it comes to hackers so why not guitars too? and what's not nice and courteous is coming in here and telling me what to do "if you had half a brain."
and i do want it to look pretty. i wanna look at it and say damnnn that's pretty, not damnnnn that's some nice two-ply pine from that there home depot it is