I purchased XM radio and was up and running on the first day of nationwide rollout. Since then I have used it constantly and rarely tune back into local FM stations. Once you begin using it and see the HUGE difference in quality regular FM becomes unbearable. Yes some of the stations do have commercials, but personally listning to 15-30 seconds of commercials is better than listning to 3-5 minutes of commercials then another 2-3 minutes of the DJ talking before we finally get to a song, and also note only SOME of the stations have commercials. In fact the majority of the stations that I listen to don't have commercials, such as 90's, ethel, etc. Personally the investment was worth it for the equipment, and the mere 30 dollars every 3 month, coming from a poor college student.
Just my 2 cents
-- Chris
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I purchased XM radio and was up and running on the first day of nationwide rollout. Since then I have used it constantly and rarely tune back into local FM stations. Once you begin using it and see the HUGE difference in quality regular FM becomes unbearable. Yes some of the stations do have commercials, but personally listning to 15-30 seconds of commercials is better than listning to 3-5 minutes of commercials then another 2-3 minutes of the DJ talking before we finally get to a song, and also note only SOME of the stations have commercials. In fact the majority of the stations that I listen to don't have commercials, such as 90's, ethel, etc. Personally the investment was worth it for the equipment, and the mere 30 dollars every 3 month, coming from a poor college student. Just my 2 cents -- Chris