A Fifty Dollar Thrift Store Find Turned Out to Be Worth Hundreds

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Sep 4, 2026 · 8m

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…