He's lucky that Gorman and Maggie Barry's ghosts weren't on the corner across the way. Their presence would have ensured that he'd've gone home broke. Those high brows smugly going into the subways (taking a taxi to the station for feck's sake) for a bit of slumming is a classist insult.

"Oh, haw haw haw - nudge nudge, some actual music with value was being presented --- oh , aren't we so superior? --- why didn't more of the workaday smucks schlepping to their jobs stop to kiss our a$$ ?!?"