i am somewhat familiar with XM, i know it is satilite radio, like sirius. dont you have to pay for them? and seeing as you're buying music i'm assuming that you dont pirate music?

Yes, I also thought $1 a song would be acceptable, then i realized i currently have over 1000 songs on my computer and how much that would cost at a dollar a song. I mean, i dont have that kind of money to throw around!!! $10 a month is better, and i think it would totally be worth it if i could get it on a walkman or some such, some personal audio device, because at work the radio tends to get hijacked by this one guy who puts it on the local rap station, WSNX, and we'll hear the same song literally 5 times a night. factor in that all the popular songs are basically the same line repeated over and over anyway, and that leads to some suicidal tendencies. I dont get it because the guy himself tries to make fun of the station, until i retort by asking, "if its that bad then why do you make us listen to it every day?" yeah, he doesnt have an answer for that. so usually the first time he goes to the bathroom or something i end up changing it and tell him to leave it alone. oh, and the best part? we have more than one radio on the line! he had a radio sitting right next to his head on that god-awful crap, then walked over to the other end of the line and changed what someone else was listening to! then turned it way up so you couldnt help BUT hear it. i asked him why the radio next to his head wasnt enough and he said he couldnt hear it with his ear plugs in. WHA?!? then take the ear plugs out!!!! we usually dont do anything loud enough to justify ear plugs anyway, besides letting that moron touch the radio!