I had Sirius on my previous truck and let it go with the truck. I hardly ever used it. It was ok until I got my iPod. But I found myself never using it once I got that. I have over 15GBs of songs, so I'm always surprised with what pops on my radio. At least it's stuff that I've pre-selected. I get tired of changing channels, and especially got tired of paying for a service when half the time, they still weren't playing what I wanted. Just my personal take on it.
I had an extensive CD collection I had built over many years before I got my ipod. It took time, but I imported all of those into itunes and then my ipod. I have an external hard drive for my computer that I use to back up itunes, and other files, on occasion should I have a computer crash. I had one early in summer prior to having the external hard drive. Fortunately most of my songs were backed up on a DVD.
You can buy CDs directly from itunes, in most cases for less than from a CD store or even Wal-Mart. And if you just have to have a CD, you can burn that from itunes.
I agree that I don't listen to satellite radio that much with my ipod. I certainly have no need to listen to a CD, single or 6 disc changer. Some vehicles now have hard drives built in.
Only problem with that would be it isn't portable. My ipod will also plug into a dock for my home theater. Great system. I love my ipod.
iPods are amazing devices.
But, for someone like me, who doesn't have gigabytes of songs or an iPod, Sirius is such a simple solution. I'm glad they offer it.
It's ability to offer such an amazing variety of stuff, from live traffic and weather every few minutes to 6 different news stations to 4 channels of stand-up comedy and umpteen music channels is just awesome.