Brat summer is over, but Dumb Records fall is in full swing.
Expanding on the success Record Store Day has had between community and business downtown, Dumb Records is expanding to a second location on the city's west side.
Dumber Records opened last week inside the White Oaks Mall. The store is on the first floor between Off the Wall and across from Kay Jewelers.
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The second record store still sells all the latest records and merchandise fans of the indie business love but has a chiller atmosphere to the rock 'n' roll stage of the main location.
Brian Galecki, who co-owns Dumb Records at 418 E. Monroe St., felt confident in opening a second location thanks to community support.
“Really it was the Record Store Day events that really made us feel we have to do something to expand or get a bigger space in general,” Galecki said. “This past April when we had over 200 people in line, that really made us start thinking, what if we had two locations to split up the crowd here?”
Record Store Day celebrates the culture of independently owned record stores and began in 2007.
Record Store Day will take place on Black Friday, Nov. 29 and again in late spring with both locations of Dumb Records offering deals on the latest music to classic oldies.
Galecki hopes the new location will be a place to shop, sit back and chill to music listening parties, and scratch that itch for older generations who remember record shops in the mall.
“Moving to the mall is a throwback in the same way that a record store is,” Galecki said. “A certain generation has fond memories of going to the mall for Music Land … so we want to try and bring that back I would say.”
Even a few of the arcade games will make a forever home in the new store.
The store is open Monday through Thursday from noon to 7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sundays from noon until 6 p.m.
Claire Grant writes about business, growth and development and other news topics for The State Journal-Register. She can be reached at CLGrant@gannett.com; and on X (Formerly known as Twitter): @Claire_Granted
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