(November 28, 2021 at 8:29 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I seldom go anywhere any more and because of that I cancelled my subscription to SiriusXM...I am in the car too little for it to be worthwhile and I haven't bothered with finding local stations to preset so there's something to listen to.
Got in the car yesterday morning, turned it on and the first thing out of the radio was 'Run, Run, Rudolph.' UGH
Sure am glad I won't be in any stores having to listen to their endless loop of pop singers mangling classic Christmas songs or singing the awful newer stuff.
On my long commutes, I used to surf the stations to avoid the advertising. I finally just busted the stock radio out of my Corolla and put in an aftermarket radio with a USB port for my iPod. Black Sabbath is better than the idiotic advertising, even if I am stuck in a (stressful) 30 mile traffic jam. My one son who works at a Lowe's store says that the music is controlled by corporate, and it's complete shit around xmas. He ought to send the company information about how employees are stressed by having to listen to xmas music on a loop. As for Sirius, even they have a fairly short loop. When I was on company travel, I'd set the radio to rock, and even in the short driving times, I'd hear repeats. My iPod has thousands of songs, enough that if one listened continuously during my commute, it would be (theoretically), 3 months before a repeat. That was way better than Top 40!
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