XM Radio...

A friend of mine is getting rid of his civic asked me if i wanted to buy his xm radio setup. Now my head unit is xm ready, he was just going to sell me whatever the other thing is that i would need for $50.

My question is for anyone who already has it... do you like it? is it worth the $10 a month? The only reason he asked me if i wanted it is because he said theirs alot of stations that have underground stuff that i like. Honestly, i hate regular radio, i always have a cd in. Im definetly going to sit in his car for a wile and browse along the stations and see if i like it. I just want to know what some other people think about it.

I love the XM radio. Have had it for nearly three years.

My taste for music is all over the spectrum. And it has channels for nearly any taste in Music.

Music channels are now all commercial free. Sports, news and talk still have commercials.

I've had it since before Christmas and I wouldn't get rid of it for anyThing. Definately worth the $10/MO and if you buy it by the year its even cheaper.

I have had it for a couple years now in my wifes tahoe and love it. well worth the money per month. i am going to get the skyfi2 for my truck when i get my tax return. lots of choices no matter what music you like there are about 4 rock stations i like (there is more) and i listen to the comedy and sports chennels a lot too. you name it, its there anything you could want to listen to and sounds like you are in an area like me where there is no good radio stations ...then it is a must have.

It has real nice quality, programming leaves something to be desired, but is very nice to have on long trips. Don't like listenng to regular radio much anymore.

I got it free for buying my new 2005, but I really don't care for it, or I haven't given it a chance. I went dirt bike riding this last weekend, a 3 hour drive (that sounds alittle like giligans island). And my buddy decieced to go through the channels, I must say the comedy channel was very entertaining, but alittle too entertaining. I forgot I was driving over the Cajon pass and should have been very alert with the 20 feet visability.Too busy laughing my ass off.

thanks for the replys... im still gonna browse through it and see what it has for me, but it looks like i might be getting it.

jeverett... how much is it if you pay by the year?

Here is the site with the discounts.

http://www.xmradio.com/service_subscription/service_subscription.jsp

Well, after looking on their website www.xmradio.com (http://www.xmradio.com) , I don't see the yearly fee anymore. When I signed up it was like $80-85 a year, which is a pretty good rate. I pay every 3 months about $27 or so.. I think there's many different ways you can pay. I'll find out more for you as soon as I can talk to my dealer.

i checked out their website and looked at the stations they have. I read some of the stuff they play on their rock stations and its the same shit thats on free radio. I did see like an indie-rock station and a punk station..which i like, but i was under the inpression that they would have a few metal stations, or even an underground H/C station. im not too much into the 80's stuff. Oh well, maybe ill just stick to downloading for free. Another friend of mine is trying to talk me into hooking an i-pod up to my radio....they cost too much.

Have you checked SIRUIS? They have many different stations that XM doesn't. I'm not fond of it all that much though.

the only reason i was gonna go with xm is because a friend of mine was gonna give me a good deal on it.

Have you checked SIRUIS? They have many different stations that XM doesn't. I'm not fond of it all that much though.

I was getting ready to suggest Sirius. I have it and love it. They have a heavy metal station (I hate it, but I don't like heavy metal) along with a couple alternative stations, couple classic rock, etc. etc.

Now personally, I like Sirius better then XM. I've listened to them both, and Sirius just has much better reception in my area. A friend of mine has XM (got it installed at the same place I got my Sirius) and his fades out constantly, and my Papaw has XM in his 04 Z-71, and it fades out as well (not nearly as bad as my friend's though, but worse then my Sirius even still).

Nigel215, I think if you give a listen to XM or Sirius, then you want be interested in regular radio ever again, lol. I have a CD/MP3 Kenwood head unit and a 10-disc Kenwood changer and I rarely ever play a CD/MP3 disc anymore, and that's all I used to play before I got Sirius radio.

Yeah. I have like $3000 worth of CD's that just sit in my room now.... I guess they're good to play the guitar along with or something..

yea, i have about the same, and about $700 dollars worth are in my truck... I figure if an I-pod gets stolen, its only $200, plus I still have all my music on my computer and on a cd.

Am I the only one in the world that still uses magnetic cassette tapes? I like the fact that they are durable and can take a beating and still work just fine. I ran over my tape case (with about 36 tapes in it) and only lost one(Rush-Signals) to damage.

Am I the only one in the world that still uses magnetic cassette tapes?

Yes.....
Yes you are :loser:

j/k :cheers:

Wow... a casette player in a truck. I've got a big hole in the dash where the AM/FM was.

Whats a tape???

lol :D

I have one tape that I listen to, but it has sentimental value because I used to listen to it riding in the car with my father as a young boy.
I've had XM for 2 1/2 years now, my brother got Sirius right before I got got XM and my best friend had it for about a year before that so I felt I needed to join the satelite radio generation. What everyone else says is true, I almost never listen to anything else anymore. Hardly ever is there not a channel with something on that I want to hear. I got an XM Commander installed in the blank space on the overhead console. It looks pretty good and nobody notices it(ie: thieves). I get billed semi-annually for like $55. I'll try to put the pics of my install in my gallery after I finish this post.
Jeb

Check out he rock stations on XM. The heavy stuff is in the lower 40's and i always listen to 47 and 48. They play a lot of what is on the radio, but I usually hear it on there a month or so before you'll hear it on free radio. BTW i bought my tuner off ebay about two years ago and just got around to hooking it up earlier this year. I hooked it up in my truck and it worked. I never paid anything to get it started and haven't paid anything in the past 4 months i've had it. I can't figure it out but i'm not complaining.

Jake