Improved Character Data shop brings music, fashion and ‘chill’ to Sayville

Michael Gippetti thinks each individual local community desires a history store.

“Every group has a barber store, a gasoline station, a components shop, a liquor keep — acquired to have our liquor — but you really do not see ample file stores,” explained the 37-year-old Oakdale resident who opened his Greater Mother nature Records store in downtown Sayville this tumble. “Record shops boost the area festivals and bands. There’s so a lot to do.”

Located at 56 S. Main St., Better Nature Information offers more than just audio. Gippetti sells everything expected to dive into rock lifestyle.

Utilized vinyl information fill bins throughout the shop, rock band tees lay on cabinets and guitars hang from the ceiling. Clothing racks in the course of the retail store boast black jackets, Eleven Paris sweaters and hoodies and All Saints boots.

The store also carries new vinyl. Shrink-wrapped classics like “Led Zeppelin” and “Are You Expert?” sign up for newer albums like St. Vincent’s “Daddy’s Home” and The Black Keys’ “Let’s Rock.”

A guitar participant himself, Gippetti’s shop is an authorized supplier for Electro-Harmonix, Z.VEX Effects and MAS Consequences guitar pedals. He also carries amplifiers and the odds and finishes guitarists on a regular basis want.

The shop sees plenty of higher schoolers and younger older people pop in to attempt out the gear. Gippetti explained he encourages the not-so-musically inclined to cease by as effectively. The middle of the keep is basically a dwelling home, entire with couches, a television and an Xbox Sequence S ready for an right after faculty cling out.

“This is a put where by they can come here and chill, enjoy Xbox, make mates, network,” Gippetti claimed. “It can be a refuge for a kid finding bullied. Matters aren’t heading well and he’s also fearful to converse to his dad and mom, he can arrive in this article, talk to me or another person else, or he can just occur listed here and really feel secure.”

A legislation-abiding punk

Since graduating from Brooklyn Regulation School in 2009, Gippetti has dedicated most of his time to operate. But subsequent a snowboarding accident in 2016, he still left his Manhattan cubical gig, took up work as a freelance lawyer and place his passions into viewpoint.

“I like songs, I like guitar, I like apparel and manner, I like retail style and design and I experienced some time on the facet from my career carrying out (home sale) closings,” he claimed. “I felt like I experienced a person probability in my lifetime to do a thing like this.”

Gippetti balances Improved Nature Information with his working day career as an lawyer. The shop is open up Monday to Friday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Fascinated consumers could want to simply call forward to ensure Gippetti did not have to lock up early and stage absent for a closing.

Gippetti is a focused follower of style, constantly on the lookout for fashionable attire. And he retains shut tabs on the hottest and biggest rock tunes. Gippetti chats consumers up about The Blue Stones, Wolf Alice and his individual preferred group, Silversun Pickups.

“We simply cannot have anything, but we are pretty great at buying out what is fantastic, what is new, what persons are listening to,” he reported.

Even though there is a good deal to purchase at Far better Character Information, retail is only about a 3rd of its owner’s aim. He explained he meant to make Much better Character a document label, but that strategy is on the again burner. In the meantime, Gippetti can supply artists a variety of record label services thanks to his legislation practical experience.

“We’re not heading to indication artists or have any ownership of their perform, but we can deliver leisure regulation companies,” he said. “We’re great with contacts, licensing, royalties, all kinds of stuff. That stuff is expensive and I can help soak up some of that expense.”

“We can get band’s vinyl pressed, we can aid with marketing actions with the website and Instagram, enable with digital distribution, reach out to festivals, achieve to pedal providers for sponsorships,” he added.

For the artists

The 3rd part of Far better Nature Documents is its perform as a platform for artists, practically and metaphysically.

Whilst the store may possibly look smaller at first glance, the room opens up for reside reveals. A PA technique is rigged up entrance, the couches and seating are rearranged and an audience a several dozen potent can pack out the retailer.

Kayla Stockert, Clover’s Curfew and Danny Assault all played within the store, and a lot more performances are on the horizon for 2022.

The Far better Nature Records internet site features a site that Gippetti hopes to use to boost area acts. He and his team writers also market distinctive albums and playlists they are taking pleasure in on the web and in the keep.

“I believe we could genuinely serve as a platform and really cultivate a vivid local community of artists,” Gippetti explained. “Long Island has an remarkable community of artists and musicians, in particular in Sayville. It wants to be captured and expressed in a way that really will help the art.”

Photographs of the store