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A USB CD reader costs $20-30 and will probably also read and write DVDs.

Software using libparanoia and lame or ffmpeg is free. The very first time you use it, you might spend 30 minutes figuring things out. It generally takes 3-8 minutes to rip and encode a full CD these days.

The market for CDs and used CDs is quite open. $10-15 for an album is quite common. For those not aware, an album is usually 8-20 songs, so roughly the same $0.99 price as for individual tracks -- but without DRM, and with physical backup.

An awful lot of artists have their own shops; frequently, if you buy the CD from there, you also get a digital copy in WAV, FLAC or MP3 immediately.

I make my music library available as a read-only NFS export in my house network, and remotely via various bits of software to members of my family.