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| - Normally I love Zia. The Tempe location is great, awesome staff, good selection and prices.
This store has a ridiculous amount of books, though less music-related ones than I would expect from a record store. The DVDs are priced well and the buckets and buckets of 2 for $3 books are amazing.
The actual merchandise is too typical pot-head, trendy stuff, like you can get at Spencer's. Once in a while there's something nifty though.
So, minus a star for those points. It would be 4 stars except for my experience today - I've been on the lookout for a particular album for a couple weeks, and not having found it, tried to special order it. The guy working the counter, who had been eyeing me suspiciously as I browsed the posters by the door (right, because I'm gonna *steal* my 2 for $3 of books), informed me that this album had only ever been available as a 10" vinyl, and has been out of print for 3 years. Riiiight. I've SEEN it at the Tempe location a couple times as a CD. When I lightly pointed that out and asked why they could get the bands CDs from 2001, 2003, and 2009 but not this from '06, he just said "Nope, only vinyl, outta print." I'm not sure what his deal was, but it kinda left a sour taste in my mouth that I had to order it from Amazon (which, by the way, was no problem at all).
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