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| - In the simplest way I can put it, Zia is a true blessing. It's a holdout of the music, movie and general pop culture shopping house heydays we took for granted in the 90s (even 00s a bit). A third of the store is movies. In depth, scarce to common titles, meticulously categorized and it's overwhelming. You forget how nice it is to find a place that takes the film catalog seriously since anywhere that did/does likely isn't around anymore. Just to show how obscure some of the titles are, I stumbled upon an Adrian Paul film (Seance) that I'd long given up on searching for. I wasn't even looking for it, I just found it sitting on the shelf. I was mildly ecstatic.
The other two thirds of the store is mostly music (mostly CD but a growing vinyl selection) and assorted books as well as pretty dang cool pop culture assortments. Coffee mugs, to comics, to toys. As for the music, again...throwing back to the glory days of CD shops and video houses, they had a thorough selection. Stuff you'd never ever find readily stocked at Best Buy. Again, appealing to my eccentric tastes...I am a soundtrack collector (scores mostly...as in original music composed for a film)...they had so many scores in stock. New AND used, but the New selection are what stood out. I picked up The November Man on CD for cheaper than I could get it off Amazon. And guess what, I supported a real store...not click, pay, ship from a warehouse. In all honesty, it made me feel a bit fuzzy inside.
Sorry, I'm clearly getting more excited the more I write. I'm gushing. I apologize. But let me put it this way, I was attending the Mr. Olympia event and had an extra day to kick around Vegas once the show had wrapped, and did I spend my day on the strip? No. I WALKED, in the cruel desert sun with fair skin to boot, 2.14 miles each way (I mapquested it) to find Zia's. And it was worth it. My only regret is that I did not have more luggage space so I could buy more. If I come back to Vegas next year, I'll be seeing Zia again.
And, worth mentioning, though very much a throwback to a better time for "media" buys (I cringe every time I write the word "media" to describe movies and music and books...)...one thing I did not have to deal with was the socially awkward music snob who wouldn't make eye contact with you nor had any real interest in helping you. Nope, the young dude who rang me up was surprisingly friendly. He said, hi, how are you, thanks for coming in. It was a dialogue I wasn't used to having.
Forgive me, again, for the overlong self-indulgent write up of Zia...but I'm a fan and I just wish there were more like this closer to home!
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