I started buying strings at walmart and radio shack because i didn't have anywhere else to get them. i finally set a few of my guitars down and went out and bough new guitars because they were hard to play hurt my fingers and sounded horrible. i even stopped playing for a while because i started to think i sucked at playing. i decided to sell a few of my guitars because they sounded bad and hurt my fingers to play but wanted to clean them up and put new strings on them first for the new owners. After getting these strings and putting them on not only is the guitar easy to play now but the sounds is not at all like i thought it would be. The guitars sound wonderful and i have decided i'm going to keep them all due to these strings. Thank you for helping bring my passion to music back 5 starts all around