I pay for the music I download, and I have paid for XM for almost two years.
I travel by car, to NM, AZ, NC, and live full-time near DC, in the panhandle of WV. I average driving more than 1000 miles per week. I got tired of turning off the radio due to losing stations...
In NM, you can get 2 or 3 radio stations nearby enough to listen. They love to play hispanic/country music. I like Rock and Roll, and love to listen to talkers...
With XM, I can even go into the Baltimore tunnels, and continue to listen, I can drive out I-40 to NM, or AZ, and listen, or I can go out into the Atlantic, off Morehead City, in my boat, and listen...even 40-50 miles out... to the same channels! I never have 'fade' any more, except when trying to get the local weather!
...the music never stops!
BTW, the cicadas are finally gone for the next 17 years, and now we DO have (relative) silence again, in the hills of WV, for a while!
I'd rather listen to silence, than pay for radio....
I can remember when cable TV came out. No commercials, or very few if any. Now? It's non-stop, endless commercials.
We all got duped and hoodwinked into paying for TV.