If i want to record FM to a CD recorder, do i need

If you have a stand-alone component CD-R recorder for music systems, it will have a built-in ADC and analog input jacks. If you are using a computer-based burner for digital data input (and don't have a soundcard installed with its own ADC and analog inputs), then yes, you would need an outboard ADC to convert the analog signal from your tuner to digital first.

With the occassional exception here and there, and then only in certain fortunate areas, I couldn't agree with Fatparrot more about the state of radio today. The FCC has conspired with the business interests to practically destroy (along with MTV) a cultural and artistic resource in this country whose loss to our musical quality of life will only be fully realized years after the irreversible damage has been done. Is this the inevitable fate of any artistic movement (in this case, popular music) whose dissemination is intimately bound up with mass media technologies? Can the internet and satellite transmission ever form communities that emulate the sorts of local variations which mark any indigenous artform with the spice of life?