Clear Channel owns part of XM. They also own KLOL.
Screw them if they think that they can run off the audience to their pay radio and replace them with a lower income demographic less likely to buy digital radio at this time.
Clear Channel concerts still have the contracts on the civic auditoriums around town but damned if I will buy a $25-125 ticket if they don't believe that there is an audience for these same bands on the radio.
Well, that may be a good reason to opt for Sirius over XM. I agree that radio should be free, but I am also aware that classical music composed centuries ago by a bunch of DWEMs (dead white European males) is not really setting the world on fire these day, so my choices are somewhat limited.