It’s been announced that Sirius satellite radio and the Met will launch a radio station that will play four performances a week during the Met’s season.

Not bad.

Except the one time we tried Sirius out we managed to connect maybe 50% of the time—maybe less. There’s no way I’m willing to pay for a service that doesn’t work half the time. We were in Seattle when we were giving it a go; maybe Sirius doesn’t work well there? But I’m not willing to give it another go here in the Bay Area. I’m cheap that way.

Besides, I have my iPod. It’ll do fine.
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