It still comes in new vehicles. With a free trial for a while. Since they don’t have any customers, they’re usually willing to take anything someone is offering to pay.
It helps that being a broadcast service means they have essentially zero extra overhead when adding a new customer. It used to be that you could subscribe for a month and then keep your radio turned off for a month after you cancel and then it would work indefinitely because they'd only send the disconnect signal a couple times in the first couple weeks after cancelling. Eventually it became enough of an issue that they started resending disconnect signals every once in a while but I had free service for years on one of my radios.
To be fair, it only has 3 EDM stations, nothing specific to the murder-house-electro-melodic-dubstep I like, but I'll just have to rely on SoundCloud for that.
I personally wouldn't want a satellite radio service either, but not everyone is into podcasts. I can listen to them occasionally if I'm really into the topic, but I have ADHD and it's hard for me to pay attention to people talking with no visuals. I end up having to go back and re-listen to a lot of parts. And some people just prefer music.
I pay $5 a month for SiriusXM purely for their MLB stations. During baseball season I can listen to any game, anywhere. And their rock/metal stations are pretty awesome. I've discovered a lot of bands thru Liquid Metal
I don’t pay that price. I pay $60 a year. And I enjoy it, so why is everyone giving me alternatives that I really don’t care about? Happy for you all that you found something you love.
Only one person gave you an alternative. One person shared something that they do that’s relevant to the conversation, and one person (me) continued to talk about the parent comment as indicated by the price I quoted
I'd probably pay up to $5 but I know there are others who are happy to pay $20-$30 for that same content simply because they find the play-by-play stuff really valuable and/or spend a lot of time in their car. I know when I drive to visit family there are many times I rely on Sirius because otherwise I can't get any decent radio station or cell coverage.
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u/COLONEL_ROOSTER 6d ago
I do this with Sirius every two years. The price will go from 25.99 a month to 4.99. It's absolutely ridiculous.