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    "comment": "Hi John. My birthday is Sunday. I'm turning 60, can't believe it. Been listening to your show since I was 40, and it's keeping me young. Can you please play some Replacements for me? Maybe \"Bastards of Young\" would be appropriate. --Dan in DC\n--\n\"Tim\" was the group’s major label debut. Paul Westerberg wondered if his band of misfits belonged to the mainstream rock landscape. He worried The Replacements might be a tax write-off for Sire Records. A common practice with major labels was signing numerous bands, hoping a few stick, and using the others as tax deductions. \n\n\"Income tax deduction, what a hell of a function\nIt beats picking cotton or waiting to be forgotten\nWait on the sons of no one, bastards of young\nWait on the sons of no one, bastards of young\"\n\nAccording to Bob Mehr’s biography on the band, Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements, Westerberg’s mother induced labor on New Year’s Eve for a tax deduction. So using a newborn baby or a band for a tax break profoundly affected Westerberg—it was an exclamation point to feeling unwanted.: \nhttps://americansongwriter.com/what-a-mess-on-the-ladder-of-success-the-misfit-approved-meaning-behind-bastards-of-young-by-the-replacements/",
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