It's always entertaining (in the sense that an attack of shingles is entertaining) when someone like Tim the Twanker arrives on a previously thoughtful and well-argued thread, proceeds to deliver a stream of posts that are incoherent, that fail to address existing arguments, that accuse people of saying things they hadn't, and that demand clarification of points already clarified at length, before wrapping the whole thing up in phoney class-war bullshit (as if this trumped all other opinions), and then tells everyone else they're wasting time that could have better spent on more worthwhile actions. Surreal.

Some of us are getting het up because (a) we care about traditional music, and object to our (supposed) flagship media outlet make a mockery of accepted definitions, and (b) we care about the accuracy and openness of the BBC, which is a much bigger issue. I know some of the musicians posting on this thread, and they are neither middle-class do-gooders nor disgruntled wannabe award winners.

As to the guitar, I suggest you try Argos.