1988 was the year CDs officially overtook vinyl records in sales, and a CBC report from that exact era laid out why listeners were making the switch, citing everything from surface noise to frequency range. The debate over which format actually sounds better hasn’t gone away since.
There’s also the story behind a misprinted Metallica record picked up at a thrift store for fifty dollars, later appraised at a value that reframes the whole idea of what makes a record actually rare.
The throwback also revisits the 1988 Mulroney-Turner debate on free trade, a conversation that sounds more familiar today than anyone might expect, and closes with the decades-old argument over whether Die Hard actually counts as a Christmas movie.
Topics: vinyl versus CD, throwback Thursday, 1988, Mulroney Turner debate, Die Hard Christmas movie
Originally aired on2026-09-03
