Today is Buy-A-Musical-Instrument Day (catchy, right?), which makes us feel guilty about all the dusty instruments we’ve bought over the years and never used – we realize, now, that we probably didn’t need a church organ, but there you go. At least we don’t buy musical instruments with such callously destructive ends in mind as the chaps (all men, of course) featured in these 12 Videos of People Smashing Guitars on Peoples’ Heads. Can you believe that’s a YouTube meme? Seriously people, pull your heads out of your basses.

Pop-In Guitar Smash

What’s the point of visiting your buddy if you can’t knock them out with their own guitar?

Guitar Execution

Wow, that guy takes it like a Roman centurion being dispatched.

Triple Guitar Smash

Thus ended the “Jonas Brothers 2″ project. Note the culprit’s super-girlie run.

Little Brother Guitar Smash

A spectacular reversal of typical fraternal power relations.

Bad Fashion and Guitar Attack

We’re starting to think that larger people do better with guitar assaults, like…

Headband Protects from Guitar Smash

Okay, maybe not.

Parking Lot Guitar Smash

Kids are so cruel these days.

Trampoline Guitar Smash

Bouncing provides extra head v. guitar momentum.

Self-Guitar Smash

If monks had guitars, we bet they’d opt for this form of protest suicide instead of self-immolation.

Lame Guitar Smash

All that preamble for so little payoff.

Homosocial Guitar Smash

When dudes can’t express their affection for each other openly, they smack each other with their guitars.

Iraq Guitar Smash

This must be why the war is costing so much (and why nobody respects Americans anymore).