I have no clue how the heck you guys are breaking A strings!!! holy crap dude! I've only ever broken high E strings... and even then only like 3 or 4 times, and only one of those was while I was playing! and it was during a single string riff where I was alternate picking it as fast as I could.

but dang, I want to buy packs at $4 a piece! my local shop sells them for like $7 or $8 per pack... which doesn't make sense because they sell single strings for $1 each. so why not just buy 6 single strings? I dunno... but, I've got 3 full sets of strings ready right now in case I break any.