Where are they getting the information that things over the last 30 years have all been recorded digitally? Almost every CD I own is AAD - meaning it's analog recording and mixing, and digital mastering. I have a few that are DDD, but that might be a dozen or so. Granted today digital recording and mixing is much more common, but going back to 1988? I am skeptical of this claim.

To be fair, RIM's line before this was "quality, not quantity" and apparently consumers want quantity.