Recording my music?  

Recording it onto what? Your computer? Is it electric or acoustic? You'll have to give a little more detail as to what you are trying to achieve here.

Use a standard home casette recorder, or a 4-track.

For better quality, go with the latter. Don't expect digital-quality sound if you go with the 4-track. You don't have the editing feature on there, as you would with a digital mixer, such as the one I use when I record at church--Cubase. With Cubase, you can record a sermon, or music, right on the computer, using the board mixer.

I prefer the four-track because I am in love with the vintage 60s-early 70s, hollowed out sound, like you are in a stadium or something.

The drawback is that if I were to make a mistake on my vocal track, I would have to start over and resing everything. Or if I were to make a mistake on my rhythm guitar track, I would have to re-record that.

That would give me a particular headache if I happened to be doing a lead guitar track, and somehow that went bad.

By the way, I really do prefer using my own recording tools. It saves money, and you can make your own music the way you want, instead of a producer telling you how he would want it done. That is giving someone else too much artistic control. You are actually working for them.

Go to a thrift shop and fine a tape recorder. Use it. Get the song together, all the instruments and all, the vocals and all that. It's not going to be that good as going to a studio where they could knock out imperfections.
Or a cheaper way to pay for the studio, go put on a lot of shows, save up the money from the profit and use that to rent a studio.