GEO: Actually, satellite radio has vastly superior sound quality since it is digital, while most of the gazillions of terra-based radio stations are still analog. If you tried satellite radio, you would immediately hear the difference in quality, as subscribers of XMSR & SIRI do all the time everywhere they drive.
But the best part of satellite radio is the exceptional programming: dozens & dozens of stations of commercial free music of all types; national business & stock news, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, FOX NEWS; specialty programming that blows terra-based radio out of (into?) the water.
And you can listen to your favorites wherever you drive to work, beach, mountains, or cross country without having to search for another station maybe in range.
I've had both XM & SIRI for several years now, and it's like 8-Track vs. CD, or TV antenna vs. cable, or analog TV vs. HDTV ... once you've tried it, you'll never go back.
And yes, you have to pay for it, just like cable TV & broadband internet. Progress marches on... sigh!
BTW, 59-60 ain't so old.
That's vastly different than satellite radio. Satellite radio does not improve the sound quality....it's just broadcast from a different place. And, as a stockholder, that's what worries me. AS I said, I live in NJ and I would never "purchase radio"....all I have to do is turn on a radio and there are a gazillion stations.
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