rant · moment 2 of 17
White Kids Selling Mixtapes and the Homeless Grandma Grift
from 147 - Love Tim (with Kevin Tienken) · #147
4 min
Riff on cultural appropriation applied to mixtape sellers, then a bit about the British tourist scammed with a sob story about homeless children and a grandmother's gangrene.
- A British tourist paid $60 for a CD in Central Park after being told it would help homeless children.
- The hustle: hand someone a free CD, then claim you're a struggling artist and ask for money—they can't just hand it back.
- White kids selling mixtapes in Central Park is so absurd Tim wishes cops could shoot them on sight.
- Tim admits he's not big on cultural appropriation, but a white kid selling a mixtape genuinely makes him sick.
- Foreign tourists feel guilty about not buying, so they hand over money even when they don't understand the pitch.
- The number "a hundred thousand homeless children" sounds both too high and too low—impossible to verify on Soundcloud.
- You can't just lead with the music; you have to lead with a social ill to make the sale work.
- A man with a dying grandmother and gangrene managed to sell a CD for $80, using his grandmother's flesh-eating disease as the pitch.