My brother bought a hundred for 33 cents each just yesterday. And so many of the tools for recording and manipulating audio are absolutely free. In fact, even if you just want to download MP3 files and arrange them in playlists so you can listen to them on your computer, we show you all you need to know there, too. And Josh did a killer job on explaining how to capture your vinyl and tapes to hard drive, then clean them up and transfer them to CD or compress them to MP3. So it's for those people who want to learn about audio restoration, too.
Research shows that magnetic media degrades over time.
CD-R and RW, when handled properly, is estimated to last 100 years or more.