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Springsteen Too Hot For Starbucks

12:11 PM EDT on May 5, 2005

This week's chart-topping album, the back-to-basics Devils & Dust, apparently left a bad taste in the mouths of Starbucks execs. The coffee-cum-media chain was gonna sell Springsteen's new disc until they got wind of "Reno," ode to a Nevada hooker ("Two hundred dollars straight in/ Two-fifty up the ass ... Pulled back her hair/ And sat in front of me on the bed"). Ray Charles used to sing about rimjobs all the time! Silly Starbucks.

Tonight he'll be your naughty Boss. Hear "Reno" here.

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