I take aspirin on a regular cadence and have tinnitus as a fun side effect. This is actually quite common [1] but you won't hear a doctor giving that warning. No pun intended.
[1] http://www.arthritis.org/living-with-arthritis/treatments/me...
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Aspirin is known to cause temporary mild tinnitus at high doses but as far as I'm aware it has not been solidly proven to cause permanent tinnitus.
Some commmon drugs cause hearing loss (ototoxic), but this is rarely mentioned by doctors. I guess hearing isn't considered as important as sight.
In my case, hearing loss is less of a problem than closing off of the arteries. I'm going as far to experiment with off-label 2-hydroxypropyl-Beta-Cyclodextrin which can also cause hearing loss. My only point is that people should not take aspirin unless they have a medical need to do so that outweighs the risk of hearing loss.
But what dosage are you on? Say I use a pill cutter and take half a baby aspirin a day (40-50mg). Do I risk hearing loss?
There are papers on PubMed that can point you in the right direction on that; but I just wanted to point out that if you get a DNA test (23andme and others), you get tested for a mutation that makes stomach bleeding more likely if you take aspirin. So the answer to both may be "it depends on your genes."