Creem's Replacements Interview from 1986

From the September 1986 issue of Creem: Drinking (And Drinking Lots More!) with the Replacements.

CREEM: Does it matter to you personally? Do you really care what the critics think?

PW: I’ll be honest. It does. I’d like to lie and say it means nothing. Not that we think we’re great or anything. We know exactly what we are. We get a giggle out of it, but it makes you feel good.

TS: When it’s someone big and they say we’re good, it makes you feel good—but I never really read any of that stuff about us. Unless someone’s got something bad to say and it’s funny or clever. I get a kick out of someone saying we suck because we’re arrogant little pricks.

PW: You do until they single it out and say you look like a fucking fake rock star. You can take the general bullshit but...

TS: I can take it all.

PW: Yeah, until they say something... you know what I’m saying.

TS: I know what you’re saying.

Tommy Stinson was 19 at the time of this interview. Paul Westerberg was 26.

Via lhb.