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

Absolute rubbish.

I have recently finished a project ripping 18,000 Cd's to hard drive. I had one that had deteriorated and was unplayable. The CD's in the project were mostly classical, with most of the Hyperion catalogue included, but with lots of jazz and popular genres from every sort of manufacturer. They were as much as 30 years old. I would have to say that I don't lose any more sleep over my CD's than I do over my 10,000 LP's. There was an issue with CD's from one English plant from the late 80' and early 90's that affected not only Hyperions, but also Unicorns, Nimbus, and other smaller English labels. I have lots of these also and have had no real trouble with them either. Soo...

Count me in as having about 500 CDs dating back to the 80s, and never having one CD go bad on me - with one exception.  Back about 8-10 years ago I decided to find out why they were so popular, so I bought a Nickleback CD.  That one was awful right out of the box.

In 30 of me buying cds I only ever had an erosion problem with ONE. Thats one out of 2700.

Problems I have with Lps over 40 years . Lost count.

There is nothing wrong  with Cds other than people suddenly declaring them out of fashion.

    I have many CDs over 30 years old, and have not experienced any aging problems with them.