This entire thread continues and no one's made mention of the stunning audio clarity (better stereo imaging than FM), Genre grouping, the ability to see who's singing what whenever, etc. These are features that I wouldn't ever want to give up anymore when listening to radio. The diversity of all the channels and the lack of censorship is another driver for me. While the business mentality may have taken over some FM radio and made it poor, I think the business mentality has take XM and made it good, assuming they can keep it that way. The subscriber's kit comes with a card with commercial-free stations highlighted, there's a good deal of them. I don't know the ratio. Previously, the only place to get certain programming *I* liked was at certain times of the day on AM stations. Now, channels like 76 (Frank's Place) play late 50's era music round the clock, and the decades stations do as well.

I think XM is a very, very good thing.