Watching the satellites

[greatbearmd]

Several years ago if one were to ask my opinion on it, I would have said I'd never pay for 'radio'. Meaning, I would not pay for the priviledge of listening to radio via satellite as long as there was good terrestrial radio around. Well, thanks to Clear Channels, SInclair Broadcasting and a couple other megaconglomerates buying up, homogenizing and

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[sfmini]

In a totally manic episode, when I bought the first MINI, I got the integrated Sirius unit. At the time I was doing a lot of driving and it was nice to have commercial free tunage. Towards the end I started noticing the fake DJ jabber and self promos were becoming increasingly annoying, along with the fact that it became increasingly clear that the stuff they were playing was the stuff that had cheap royalties. There were entire spectrums of music that was never played. One such station on Sirius seems to play nothing but Barry White. Boy, his royalties must be zero.

When I had the knee surgery and using a clutch became so hard I had to move up to a MINI with automatic, I didn't even bother to strip the Sirius unit out of the old MINI to put in the new MINI. As much as I had paid for it, I didn't feel it was even worth the ongoing price of the subscription.

I had always resisted iPods. I thought it too creepy that most of modern civilization had white wires running up to their ears. But, East Bay MINI gives iPods to you when you buy from them. My problem solved. I got the wiring harness to enable me to hook the iPod up to the H/K head unit and I get my music, digitally at no cost.

Mind you, sometimes if I'm just running out for a few I don't take it and I get to taste local SF radio. OMG, silence is better than that shit.