Garageband export to wav? How much "damage" to quality if compressed?

I've made several songs with Garageband which I want to export to my album. I am thinking of ways to get the best possible quality out of Garageband. It doesn't seem to have .wav export so I need to either export it to .m4a or .mp3 OR do a workaround and record the output of my Mac to another recording device (but that's difficult to do since my project doesn't play smoothly because of so many instruments and effects). Oh yeah and then there's option to open the project with Logic Pro 9 that I also have BUT it doesn't sound the same at all and the mixer settings are way off compared to Garageband.
Can anyone explaing in simple terms what kind of damage to my songs quality does compressing to, for example, 320kbps mp3? I know it's not really an audible quality loss, but it's still something that bothers me.
Or is there any other way?

If you want CD quality don't use compression at all. Then GarageBand will export in AIFF format, the quality you get on a CD. You can compress it later to m4a or mp3 in iTunes, when your album is finished.
Simply disable the "compress" button in the export panel, when you share your song to iTunes.

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