Imagine if one of your most fervent desires was to collect royalties from the untold thousands of hours you've spent refining the crafts of songwriting and music production—yet you'd spent decades believing you'd never earned a single penny from it. 

The Milkmen won the KBCO Best Song in Colorado title for "Lolita" in ... this is not a misprint ... 1981. 

Now they're finalists for Best Song in New Mexico for "Head and Heart" — 37 years later. 

What if the virtually unknown Men of Milk have actually out-written and out-recorded some of the biggest names in rock history? Well, if it's true, that and $5 buys me a triple latté at Starbucks. Crazy as it sounds, it's…