The awful truth about CDs, do they have the same shelve life as LP's ?

It appears that PM does not know the difference on this subject matter?

Happy Listening!

OK, I'm going to jump on the bandwagon now. I've been buying CDs since 1984 and I am unaware of a single CD that I own that shows any sign of degradation. Admittedly, I did not buy many early CDs because they sounded like crap and hi-end players were really expensive at that time. However, I do have many from the 1980s without a single failure, AFAIK.

I also have a buch of LPs from the same period. They have not failed either........

I have a few that have gone bad.  The most noticeable was Sade's disc "Promise"   It skipped constantly and when I took it out of the player and held it up to the light, it had hundreds of tiny pinholes that you could see right through the label.  It appeared that the "silver" or aluminum coating containing the information was slowly disintegrating.  On a few other discs, the silver plus the label had pinholes.  Maybe some sort of chemical reaction between the label and the information layer?  Most of my cd's are fine.  A Kinks and Joan Armatrading discs I bought in the 80's still work fine as do 99% of my collection.  And as everyone knows, any damage to the label side will wipe out the information directly beneath it.