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.
God Bullies pulls biblical items. Mike would love it.
Amphetamine Reptile brings up snakes.
I’ll look for Jeff the brotherhood vinyl and it’ll show me shirts even though I only searched for vinyl. Odd….
I’ve found myself becoming a part of the hipster record collective and usually search for RSD or TMR releases. I love the limited editions, colored, rare and OOP re-releases that these searches tend to generate. So a rare OOP TMR RSD colored release is always a nice find :D
Punched up The Beat Farmers (‘cause I have a cassette compilation, that’s not on Discogs)and a Farmer’s Insurance site was waiting at the bottom…..are you a Moodymann fan Ben? The compilation was not on E-Bay.
Love the comment directions. I’m all about searching for the cheapest DVD copies of my old favorite movies and watching the commentaries and special features. Also into rare merchandise from my favorite artists. ‘These are a few of my favorite things.’
I often check for The God Machine records on vinyl and I always end up with several listings for Tin Machine…
Third Man Colored vinyl and the results seem to be the same every time…..bunch of flippers over charging for my whale records ?
I like to look up Hagstrom guitars. I’m a big fan and it amazes me nothing changes. I been playing Hagstrom for 10 year or so and I thought I found the holy grail, good guitars at low prices. I also thought soon everyone would discover this and then the cheap dream would be over. Still after all this time I don’t see them more often and the vintage ones still go for the same price as 10 year ago. anyway I love em and that’s more Hag for me I guess
“AVAIL vinyl” results= Just Bieber Vinyl Stickers avail in Blue, Red, and who the fuck cares