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Originally Posted by sperry
Actually, the biggest reason by far that people listen to sat music is that there's listenable music on it. Every terrestrial station is the same ClearChannel top 40 crap. Sat radio could go to commercials and as long as they continue to have actual content people will still listen... they'd be pissed about it, but what are they going to do, go back to whatever this week's American Idol runner up is putting out?
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I get by without either one. I bought a head unit that plays .mp3s, I download a lot of music from cheap sites and add it to my archive of stuff I've gotten from other people or ripped from my own CDs. As for new artists and other stuff I don't know, Pandora an similar sites do a great job of showing me new music. I'm not trying to argue that Satellite Radio isn't currently the best broadcast outlet for getting new and/or good music, but I would go from considering getting it eventually as an outside posibility, to having zero desire to use it if it added commercials.
Most importantly to my original point, when hundreds of thousands of people bought XM or Sirius, they didn't play commercials. If they add them, that's the kind of BS that makes me stop buying a product or service.