Billboard may be phrasing it differently, but it doesn't sound like the Replacements (or rather, Tommy Stinson and Paul Westerberg) are likely to reunite any time soon. Says Stinson, "We actually talked about it again this year, and I think there was a consensus that, you know, maybe it wasn't the right time (to reunite), or maybe it is the right time...There were some things thrown out, and there were other festivals that wanted it too, if we were going to do it. At the last minute, it just didn't seem like the right thing to do, so we didn't do it. But I think Paul and I have something to offer each other still. I think that's pretty obvious when we get together." Paul sounds even less rosy about the possibility.
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Paul Westerberg's one-track album 49:00 is actually only 43 minutes and 55 seconds long, according to Amazon MP3's count, but its 49-cent price tag has helped propel it to the top of the online music store's Bestselling MP3 Albums chart. (If that top ranking holds up, next week's SoundScan numbers should provide quite the interesting snapshot of Amazon MP3's market penetration, no?) [
