OK, now that's just silly....
As I stated, after I was ribbed a bit for being the "boy racer" type (which I appreciate - being a LOT closer to 50 than 30) I may have just had probs with stock rubber mounts due to age and oil deterioration, and I certainly defer to JohnZ's recommendations on the subject, but steel motor mounts do NOT shake your car apart!
They are only a little louder. If they aren't necessary, great! If urethane rigidity, which probably transmits nearly as much noise as the steel, isn't necessary either, then great also!
I have never "dropped a clutch" (to see how soon I could blow up my rear end....) I've never been to a "cruise night" or, other than for some pest or critic at work or in the "hood" showed off the car or any part of the car at all, let alone
the freaking motor mounts! 
I don't even LIKE IT when some one other than a gearhead with something similar "NOTICES" the silly thing!!! (If I was trying to make the car flashy I would have at least paid MAACO $500 for a cheapy paint job and the body shop $300 to put the top on, now that I have, quite literally, spent the cost of a new Viper on this thing in three years. Motor mounts are a PART!!!)
I've never wanted to build up a budget claimer car. I've never owned a vehicle less than 15 years old and been driving such for a third of a century. I drive reasonably fast and fairly hard mainly on highways alone with no other vehicles in sight for a lot of miles - this thing's seen 30K/year, with over a year down total. That's what shapes my experience base.
After having broken too many old rubber motor mounts on too many older cars with very weak engines - and never with a manual tranny - I would never, ever consider for a second on anything other than a very mild stock car mildly driven using anything but steel.
That's just my choice. I do a lot of things based on "oh no - not again..." I cut out fusible links and put in inline fuses. I use higher torque starters. I use lower temp thermostats or restrictor plates. When rewiring, I go to a bigger gauge. I change batteries way before they are needed and go to a bigger one. I add an inline fuel filter. I always put manual cutoff valves to the heater cores because on the same old cars I've dumped three of them onto the passenger floor. Etc...etc....
But steel motor mounts shake a car apart?
IN GIANT BOLD LETTERS?
Please...
If your engine is developing that much extraneous vibration, you aren't going to have an engine for too awful long.... The only real noise of any consequence you will transmit either way, as always, will be additional exhaust sound (transmitted through direct contact through the engine instead of through air.) The sounds of all the burning events not going to exhaust, valve train, pistons, chain, oil pump, etc. are neglible compared to that.
The rubber mounts are definitely quieter. They are not anywhere near as much quieter as the difference between a nice big free flowing exhaust (or god forbid sidepipes!) and a regular small diameter restrictive muffler setup however.
How about a little return to some perspective here folks? We're just discussing MOTOR MOUNTS! It's not like something critical like:
WHY AUTOS RULE OVER DINO-TRANNIES!:argue
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Oh, I will agree with GMJunkie on one thing (and lots of others...)
I've used most of the big and a few of the little suppliers. I appreciate MidAmerica supporting the site. But I've gotten seemingly equal service to my mind from all of them. All have made small errors and readily made good on them.
Ecklers is still good in my books - although as always I'd be interested in hearing complaints. After hearing how SSBC screwed over Megladon (either here or on CF) and the illiterate manner they handled it I will not deal with them readily.
