That battlestar lighting stereo thing isn't some random useless ricer thing. It indicates your volume level and radio station preset. As you turn up the volume, the bars light up to the right, as you turn it down they light up to the left. Also, when you change a radio station, the light under that preset button lights up to tell you which preset you are on.
Plus, it looks cool at night when you have the rest of the interior lights on. I bet you didn't drive it in the dark, did you? If you did, you'd know what I was talking about, it adds some lighting pizzaz to an area that lacks the pizzaz of the instrument cluster lighting, or the console lighting.
