“Adam’s Song (How Blink 182 Screwed Our Friend For $500k)” is a song by Rookie Card performed live at a one-time performance.

The song is a parody of the Blink-182 song, “Adam Song”; the lyrics are sung by a friend of record producer, Pat Secor, and are about how Blink-182 sold copies of their album, “Buddha” through a label at the time called Filter Records managed by Pat Secor without paying Pat (who managed the production of the album and recorded with the band at Doubletime, Santee, California).

The band would go on rerelease a remastered version of “Buddha” through Kung Fu Records, which is managed by Joe Escalante—who claims that the band had told him that, “someone’s bootlegging it” and so he would prevent the “bootlegger” from releasing any more copies of the album, meaning that the reissue would be able to be released through Kung Fu Records.

Planet Clair: Why do you think that blink-182 all of a sudden seemed to turn on you?
Pat Secor: Well, towards the end, when I would try and call them to try and discuss stuff, whenever I would ask a question, especially to Tom DeLonge, he would literally say, ‘Oh, let me call my manager and I’ll call you back.’ Cargo started calling and making threats. I didn’t have any money to fight back with, we didn’t have any written contract. Shortly after that, they got signed to MCA, then MCA starts calling. Try going up against that.

— Pat Secor on East Bay Express