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.
I wanted an album by the band ‘Love’.
Try searching LOVE in any sort of search engine. Stuff like this will get you nowhere: ‘Love album’ ‘Love self titled’ ‘Love vinyl’
Searching ‘Love Forever Changes’ or another specific album get appropriate results though.
Got turned onto the band from the demo of Signed D.C. vault single, so thank you for that!
Usually search third man records and what I notice that before there was much more offered. Though many of the articles offered before were with a buy now option with ludacris prices.
I search “colored vinyl” under records. in general have decent results. if I try to add much more detail as Third Man or Jack White it blows up and gives me all kinds of craziness.
FYI modern collectors: Cold has a new record coming out and they’re selling a limited edition signed vinyl bundle. Check it out at “cold army.”
(1958, 1959, 1957, 1956) telecaster. I get a lot more suggestions now but i have not noticed any changes when using quotes. i know they started throttling and suppressing results from certain sellers that were/are violating terms earlier this year, maybe that has something to do with it.
My go to is always “Sloan” usually, I’ll just get a dozen or so entries of the Canadian rock band Sloan, which is what I’m actually searching for, but lately there has been a lot of weird additional stuff ranging from clothing to tools.
I’ve been trying to find a 2011 BB King Hatch poster that has the city of Hershey, PA listed for quite some time (since 2011 actually). I have a saved search of BB King Poster 2011 and I get some interesting things that pop up in my e-mail claiming to be a BB King Poster from 2011. One of the best was a George Clinton concert poster. Hey, at least it was a poster. More often than not I get no e-mail notices and I have to manually search anyway, which does turn up results, but never the one I am after.
Get Baby In Vain on the tour! They Rock!
Currently I’ve been searching Third Man Test Pressings. I get good results, but I get a lot of “Third annual” various artist test pressings.
I often search for Fort Worth albums and lately I’ve had random merch for the now defunct Fort Worth Braumas team come up. thought I must have messed with a setting somewhere. I guess not….