I’ve made no secret of my opinion of Atlanta radio; I rank it somewhere between famine and AIDS on the hierarchy of bad things in the world.  That being said, considering how much time I spend in my car, commuting, or running errands since I live out in god’s country, I still like to have something to listen to.  99% of the time, that just so happens to be Sirius satellite radio.  And then 80% of the time spent listening to Sirius is typically spent listening to the Howard Stern Show.

However, Sirius isn’t free, much to my chagrin.  I had a six-month trial period after I got my car back in 2011, which is always brilliant in a market like Atlanta, because it allows people to listen to things that aren’t mainstream rap, mainstream country, University of Georgia football talk, or top-40s.  And when the trial period runs out, they’ll want nothing more than to be able to have that kind of audio freedom, even if it means shelling out some money to do so.  I fall into that category.

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