I did, however, buy a 40 GB iPod two days ago.

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XM and Sirius didn’t really seem that different to me. Sirius is a little more expensive because it has fewer commercials. The comparison above is fairly hilarious though. I love that they criticize XM for being located in Washington, DC: “great place to learn all about our country. Music, not so much.” Zing!

Musically, XM and Sirius have roughly the same lineup, with the following exceptions:

XM offers MTV and VH1, more PopMusic stations, an all Love Song station (wooooooooooooooo!), a station devoted to Frank Sinatra, and an all 40’s station (Sirius only goes back to the 50’s). They also have an interactive Top 20 station (Sirius does a “static” top 40), and my favorite station: Cinemagic (it essentially takes the popular lines from a movie and plays that in between selected songs from the soundtrack. It’s kinda like listening to the Cliff Notes for a movie). They offer some additional crap as well that’s really not worth mentioning (unlike the all Love Song station).

Sirius offers an International Rap/Spoken Word station, more Dance Music stations, a Swing station, and a Ballroom station. Plus some other crap.

As far as the Non-Music Stations, XM and Sirius offer a lot of the same stations, such as CNBC,E!, and The Weather Channel.

XM offers CNN, CNET, Fox Sprots Radio, The Sporting News, NASCAR, Additional Comedy channels, and Audio Book Channel, 4 additional Talk Radio stations (including “The Power” — a No Compromise African American Talk Station), and for an additioanl fee, the Playboy Channel (which blows). Plus, some other crap.

Sirius offers 2 NPR channels, 3 additonal Weather Channel stations (both XM and Sirius offer the National Weather Channel, but Sirius offers regional stations as well, which is pretty sweet), Sports Byline USA, 4 Sirius Sports Channels, CourtTV, A&E Satellite Radio, and some other crap.

The biggest thing Sirius brags about (and I think it’s overblown) is that all of their music channels are commercial-free. I guess XM still has some commercials on their music stations (although probably fewer than FM). Since my music taste is not at all diverse (alternative, rock, and a little classic rock) that pretty much means 75% of the music stations are not at all interesting to me. I really like the talk and news though… keeps me from falling asleep in the car.