Carlos Cortez and His Rhythm Kings
“Mambo Costa Rica” b/w “Rose of Tangier”
scum stats: who knows
So I’ve just noticed a kink in the results that eBay spits out for its searches and it’s pissing me off.For example, I search the term “detroit” under the category “records” probably every other day for the past ten years. I know what titles spit out as if they’re ingrained into my soul. This specific search is, by all means, my shit.
Within the past week or so, searches started being populated with TONS of Motown releases, all previously unseen by me and none of which have the word Detroit anywhere in their title or description.
Additionally, I use the “vintage Detroit t-shirt” search regularly. Again, I’ve come to know what to expect with this query. I rock vintage Detroit shirts regularly.
But in this same week or so, that search is absolutely littered with Detroit sports jerseys of all stripes and vintage, NONE of which are actually t-shirts or even have the term t-shirt in their title or description.
Had acquaintances relay stories of searching for blues records and their searches being filled with blue colored vinyl pressings, or searching for a rare 78 of Lewis Black “Corn Liquor Blues” and instead turning up tons of comedy albums by the comedian of the same name.
I feel like this is bullshit and is only further pushing me towards Discogs and Etsy to get my vinyl and vintage shirt fix.
So in celebration…I share with you a record from a Detroit label I’d MUCH rather show up without explicitly even searching it. A mambo on Fortune is a sight to behold. I’ve definitely got room in my life for more of this.
For the giveaway…write in the comments what you’re go-to eBay searches are AND what you’re seeing differently from them lately, if anything.
Winner will get a blues record or a blue vinyl record or something that is only tangentially connected to what they’re actually looking for. Good luck.
Ebay sucks – the local record store is my jam!
Currently My go to searches are Gram Parsons and anything flying burrito brothers related. A few Byrd’s promo’s came up a few weeks ago that was slightly different!!
Other than that I have a
oar skip spence vinyl search been waiting a while for a original to show up at a decent price but it only seems to be reissues!!
I don’t use eBay at all since Poland is one of few (if not the only) countries, where local platform was not superseded by eBay – in fact it was eBay who closed the business here!
I am always searching for new laptops on Ebay. Unfortunatly I am pretty sure a good chunk of them are stolen. Ebay gets shady
I can’t think of the last time I used ebay without searching “Third Man Test Pressing”. The Hotel Yorba test pressing has yet to show up again after last year’s mystery test pressing event.
The Icky Thump test pressing is still up there. It’s pressed by RTI and has a date stamped on it of May 14 2007. $1900 or best offer!
My go to search is usually “white stripes icky mono”
I kick myself everyday for missing out on that 1st Vault package.
I also usually search “raconteurs hey gyp”. I got the PK at the anniversary party and it would be awesome to collect the whole set one day.
The search results are pretty solid with nothing out of the ordinary.
It is interesting to see the items that pop up in “items matching fewer words” I once saw a test pressing off Icky Thump, but the asking price was way out of my range. I did see those Jack and Meg USBs pop up and I was able to score the pair for under $20, that was a lucky day!
P.S. that Carlos Cortez song is really groovy. I was listening to it on my phone and my wife asked me if I was on hold with someone. I laughed and said, “honey this would be the most fantastic hold music in history”
I search thirdman records on ebay at least everyother day.Also popular searches for me are vault vinyl,Jack white, & Nashville Rock.
one of my favorite bands is dean wareham’s band, LUNA. Try typing that into eBay search. A lot to wade through. luna negra, la luna, luna sea, cult of luna, soy luna, orchestra luna, cafe de luna, pastor Luna, luna ad noctum, and on and on and on. oh look! Luna Bewitched!!! luna de plata, luna nueva, daniel luna. 5443 listings for luna under music just tonight…
@WeeBee I feel the same way about my old guy at Old Town Records in Temecula, Calif!