Really worth getting. In fact indispensable. I prefer callingbthem CD recorders, which may sound less dramatic, but it's what they are.

Well you can use them for making copies of CDs you borrow from libraries or wherever, but for people who like making their own music the main use is to turn the audio tapes you make into a more user-friendly format, CDs. That could be tapes of your own music, or copies of records where it'd be useful to have a CD as well. The first is of course totally legal everywhere, the second is legal in most places when done for your own use anyway.

Dead easy to do. All you need is the appropriate recordable-disc drive either fitted in your computer or plugged into it, and a couple of programs that tells your computer what to do.

Here is a link to a DIY page on my website about it. (And if you're still having to rest your voice, kendall, you can just swear under your breath when it goes wrong. But it's not hard. If I can do it, anyone can do it.