Bill’s Records Confirmed Move

by Cindy Chaffin of of Life Outside The Bubble

As reported here last week, Bill's Records is indeed moving from it's long-time location at Coit and Spring Valley over to the Southside on Lamar area.

I talked to Bill last Friday and he said the deal wasn't quite complete, but that must have changed, as Thor Christensen reports in today's Dallas Morning News:

" After 25 years in North Dallas, Bill's Records is moving to a smaller space in the 1300 block of South Lamar, next to Poor David's Pub, south of downtown."

"I'm getting teary-eyed just thinking about not coming here anymore," owner Bill Wisener said Tuesday, standing in his sprawling, 8,000-square-foot store at 8118 Spring Valley Road. "I'm 62 and don't like to make changes. But I have to. I can't keep going into the hole."

"Like many record store owners, Mr. Wisener has suffered declining sales as more consumers download music and buy CDs over the Internet. "I sell about 30 percent what I sold 10 years ago, and it's just getting worse," he says."

"The new Bill's Records will be smaller – 3,500 square feet – with much cheaper rent. The downside is he'll have to weed out thousands of LPs, cassettes, posters and T-shirts that have piled up in his store since the Reagan administration."

"He hopes to open the new Bill's Records by Jan. 31, when his lease runs out in the Northwood Hills Shopping Center. Poor David's owner David Card says he's "ecstatic" to have Bill's Records moving next door, and Mr. Wisener says being next to Poor David's will mean more live performances in his record store."

"We'll work together and have concerts in the day from a lot of the same people who play his place at night – we'll just shift them back and forth from one place to another," Mr. Wisener says."

I'm a little melancholy about this move myself. I've been going to the Bill's since I was in high school. Plus, it's the only cool music joint close to where I live - I can't wait to freakin' move...oops, I digress.

Ya'll go on over and pick up some great CDs, vinyl, posters, t-shirts or even some 8-tracks so he doesn't have so much to pack.