You can justify it anyway you like, that’s your business, I really don’t care. Fact is, it’s still wrong, whether or not your receiver got the kill signal or not, if you tune into Sirius XM programming, it’s your responsibility to do the right thing and pay. A product or service is either worth it to you at the price asked or it is not. If Sirius XM service is not worth $13/month to you, then don’t pay and don’t listen. If you do listen, you should pony up the cash. And don’t justify it by saying ‘I only listen to one or two channels and I would subscribe anyway’. Would it be a valid excuse if I said I want to steal DirecTV programming because I only want to watch the NFL Network but I don’t watch any other channel, and I wouldn’t pay for the service anyway?
Sirius XM isn’t in the business to give programming away for free. And those that do not pay for service, or get those retarded retention deals, should you ever have the urge to, you have absolutely have no right to complain about anything at all related to Sirius XM, programming, hardware, sound quality, etc, as you are doing nothing to help gain revenue to use for future improvements.
Just because you're goofy enough to admit you'd rather pay MORE to your cable company and cell phone company doesnt mean we all want to do that
I’d rather pay more to ensure future improvements and advancements. I know that concept may seem foreign to you, but it’s how business works. What you pay for a product or service is an investment in that company’s future. If we all canceled our radios and waited for the kill signal, or all called up and whined and got a year for $77, there would be no future. If I’m satisfied with a company and what they offer, I have no problem spending more if I find the value in it, I have no problem with an occasional increase, I have no problem supporting those who provide me with products and services I enjoy.
For years I had 3 XM accounts and 2 Sirius accounts. After the channel line ups merged a few years ago I went down to one of each. Sirius in my car, and XM at home since my home theater receiver had a built in XM tuner. I’d hook up my old SkyFi 2 every so often to access the hidden diagnostic screens to fine tune my antenna from time to time. The receiver has fully active the last time I did that, but I have no intention to listen to it. This past December when I redid my set up, my new home theater receiver had Sirius built in, so I activated that and put XM back into my car. I hooked my old Roady XT up and it was still fully active as well, I could have just called and canceled my whole XM account and listened for free, but I did a radio swap and paid.
One thing I will say, these companies aren’t stupid, they know the tricks people play. Where I work, even though we don’t have anything remotely to do with this industry, if you call up and complain about price or try to bluff us by saying you’ll switch to a competitor, of course we’ll make some price adjustments in your favor. But all the lost revenue from you will be made up somewhere else. Increased future price increases from what they would normally be from all of our other customers, finding ways to charge others more and just plain ‘ole inventing fees. We will not take a loss of revenue overall due to you being cheap. And I fully support that notion as my own paycheck is affected by that directly.
I’m no Mr. Morals, but I have come to the realization that things cost money, and if we all just paid the price asked, we’d all be better off, and we’d be paying less for more. I downloaded so many pirated MP3s, and while I never downloaded a movie, I did get a nice DVD collection by having Netflix and doing ‘Burn N Return’. But after thinking about it, who was I really screwing over? Those that worked hard to produce the entertainment that I enjoy and those that do the right thing and purchase it. And no it’s not just about taking money away from millionaire singers, actors or CEOs. It’s about taking money away from those behind the scenes. Personally, if I was an audio engineer either for a recording studio or Sirius XM, I wouldn’t want someone to not pay for the work I had a small hand in creating. Does that sound reasonable to you? Over the past 5 or 6 years I've since redownloaded every song I could legally, and have purchased just about every movie the copied from Netflix on DVD or BD.
