You'll love it. I've had it for two years now and I won't ever go back. I go crazy when I'm in my wife's car and we have to listen to terrestrial radio. I can't believe I ever sat through all those ads and limited playlists.
Never again.

Sirius dropped Fox News then picked them back up months later, had fewer college sports and less football teams that we like to follow than XM - both are good, Then they gave half the stock to Howard Stern and Martha Stewart - that's when we left them for XM. I like the signal strength and program content of XM better. I have had both. I could not get Sirius to work inside from a window but have had no problems with XM picking up the sattelite from relatively obscure locations on the 'boom box' - My wife and I both have XM and we will never look back. The second, third etc. units are $6.99/ month if you pay for a year in advance you get a free month. I would suggest that you look at the programing of both and pick the one that has the best for you. They both have a wide array of decades music, talk radio, sports, and comedy. Oh, we feel like the local(Atlanta) traffic and weather is better on XM too

The sound quality has been dialed WAY back over what is was 2-3 years ago. At this point, my XM sounds MUCH worse than my ipod, all else being equal. It's not even up to FM quality in my vehicles, and that to me isn't going to keep my business.

This has become quite an issue on many of the XM/Sirius forums. They are dialing back the quality of the streams for sure.

I complained directly to ClearChannel. I also doubt it made a difference but I had to take it out on someone - we were so disappointed! 98.5 has the Christmas music, but no Delilah.

FYI XM radio is a ClearChannel thing, so definitely get Sirius if you're going to pay for radio! I personally will just burn a few more cds and be done with it, 94.9 in December was the last radio we ever listened to anyway.

Also, if you pay for radio because there are no commercials, don't forget that's why we started to pay for cable tv,too! It takes a few years but I'm sure it won't be too long before satellite radio is ruined with commercials as well.

But like I said elsewhere, both services have dialed back quality in favor of quantity.

CC has 4 channels on XM they program, and when they added commercials on these channels, XM added additional channels of the same programming without any of the commercials. I'm not even sure how many commercials they do play on the CC channels, as I've yet to hear one.

Continuous Christmas music? A glutton for Rudolph and Gene Autry.
I will not consider satellite radio for one reason: that NYC idiot. They are now living on startup money but you will eventually hear many, many commercials. What do you pay per month?
I suppose the things that most turned me away from any kind of radio are the Limbaughs, Hannitys, and the local liars on radio who supposedly buy everything they advertise for their homes! Some would need a 1000 acre farm just to hold the merchandise if that were true. There is one (1) liberal program, I think, but I have never heard it in Atlanta.
My car came with a radio, otherwise I would never listen to it.
Now, Sundays! Wow, where do these guys come from?

I totally agree and I am very frustrated. I listened to 92.9 for years. Then, one morning, it was DAVE radio. ICK.

Then I switched to 96Rock in the mornings on my way to work. POOF – gone.

It was a pleasure to listen to the Christmas music on 94.9. I think they started after Thanksgiving. I kept it on all day at work and everyone enjoyed it.

Then one day a few weeks ago as I was listening, and at noon it became Country. I thought someone had changed the channel! I went to the website for Randy and Spiff and read the sad news.

As far as I’m concerned, Clear Channel has made a mess out of Atlanta’s radio stations. I will continue to boycott any channel they own.