On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:32:43 -0400, Nancy Young <email@replyto> wrote:

>On 9/29/2011 7:11 AM, Pete C. wrote:
>>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9/29/2011 4:07 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>>> One of the things I like about my Sonata is the XM radio. Never thought
>>>> I'd pay to listen, but commercial free, it is very nice.
>>>
>>> People mocked, that's okay. I got to like having XM radio in
>>> about a day. It's very convenient and there are stations for
>>> every mood or taste. And you don't drive in and out of range,
>>> that was a hassle when I commuted.
>
>> I still mock. My truck came with sat radio, I fiddled with it for one
>> day and only because I was doing a 1,700 mile drive. I find it to be
>> utterly worthless and from what I heard it isn't even "commercial free"
>> as they claim since it seems to be riddled with their own commercials. I
>> listen to either NPR or to music from a 16GB USB drive of MP3s.
>
>Oh, I'm not under any illusion people won't still mock. I don't
>hear all these commercials you mention but I suppose we listen to
>different stations. I like to hear music when I'm driving around
>that is something I wouldn't have thought to record or buy on a CD.
>
>nancy

On long cross country drives I like to listen to local
AM stations, the ones that announced the local weather, local gossip,
and I didn't mind the local farm prices. I never liked canned music,
still don't buy music... I own maybe three Roy Orbison CDs, and
couldn't guess how many years it's been since I played them. I have a
CD player in both my car and tractor, never used either, don't even
know if they work. I only like live music (concerts), and only now
and again... most of what's called music nowadays I call noise
pollution.