There is some truth to that. Sirius is starting an a la carte service, where you can get some of the better XM channels.
I rent cars often, and allot of them have XM. I think that XM has very little organization of their channels. It’s hard to find anything without a guide. Also, their channels seem to be poorly thought out. Every time I listen I get the feeling that they have one person programming 10 channels. Every rock station that I listened to would have 10 garbage songs before a good one comes on.
With Sirius, I think they let enthuisits program. Sirius came out after XM so I think, they were able to critique and improve.
I forgot to mention that I purchased a 2 extra online subscribtions for my brother and mom.