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

Having ripped ~2,000 CD's using dBpoweramp with its Accurip comparison tool, I have had very few that were not bit-perfect matches to everyone else's out there.  That seems like pretty good preservation.  When one does run afoul, it almost always shows some mistreatment damage to the surface (I have purchased a lot of used CD's from a wide variety of sources).

I'd say the news is way over-hyped, possibly even misleading with an agenda?  

Have had over one thousand CDs through my collection and currently 700-800. I've run across one CD that didn't want to play but I ripped it to my drive and burned another copy and the CDR plays fine. It was from Monty Python's - The Final Ripoff. The other was the Subdudes - Lucky. I've heard several different copies and they both had pinholes in different places. Just get a skip here or there but they play fine.

All that being said, this talk of a shelf life seems very overblown. All my other CDs play just fine and none of my friends have reported CD failures. If you don't use them for coasters you should reasonably expect them to last well beyond your life. I have plenty of CDs from the beginning and they play fine. I don't believe the hype, seems some have an axe to grind or an agenda to put forth. Don't waste your time worrying about this topic, is should be dead; the topic not your precious CDs. Now, go buy some more CDs.

I have bought CD's since the beginning of the format and have about 3,000 of the things.  A handful (4 or 5) have, indeed, deteriorated to the point they are unplayable.  Interestingly, all save one are Hyperion products. All of the bad ones exhibited bronzing on the label side (the once silver color turned to a copper or bronze hue).  

The most recent casualty came to my attention about a week ago: Hyperion CDA 66423 (The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by Gothic Voices).  This is a 1990 recording that I bought new about the time of its release.  Last Sunday I picked it off the shelf for the first time in many years.  My old but reliable Eastern Electric MiniMax CD player could not load it, nor could I load it on my MacBook Pro.  

Perfect sound forever?  Not quite in this case.

Have you tried to rip them?  Perhaps it is possible to recover them.
Sometimes the issue is the sun shinning on particular place on CD rack.  

I think my ears will go first. What's between them is starting show some degree of.....crud I forgot what I was gonna say.