Oh that's good, I don't plan on performing with the drum so whatever I hear up close is what I'll stick with.

just a recomendation...
the only head that you can get for under $20 is those thin 1 ply mylars
those are good...i mean my school uses them but they break quickly
for about $34 you can get a remo falam that will last you a long time...and ive heard you can get a pretty wet sound from them...i wouldn't know because thats not how or tech likes our drums (he likes them dry and with the snareas gutted) but if you use the drum for home practice it'll save you snugglebunny of money to just buy one falam than it would for all they mylars you couyld potentially break

Mylar heads aren't as durable as Kevlar, but unless you're cranking them every day (as you would in drum corps), they should generally last for a number of months even under moderately high tension. And so long as you don't abuse them, they should almost never break.

When you seat the head, don't crank it all the way to the desired tension immediately. Put moderate tension on it, make sure it's in tune with itself from lug to lug, and let it stretch and settle for a day or more. Afterward, whenever you increase tension, do it gradually. Reefing the head too much too fast is the most common cause for breakage other than being careless and puncturing the head (like by spearing it on your snare stand).

At ten bucks per head, you shouldn't go broke buying Mylar bottoms. And personally, I prefer their sound to Kevlar, especially for a single drum.

I have seen mylar heads that just randomly split though, Our old ones on the snares we have are all going through this. Most of them are cracking along the snares, they just split from edge to edge. Although we did have a kid that cracked from 11 o clock to 2 o clock (If you imagine a clock face) But I'm suspecting he probably set it down, or smacked it with his stick on accident, something.

But as Skydog suggested, put tension on the heads little by little and you will get a much longer life out of the drum.