Analogue from Digital

@sandthemall
I believe the RIAA curve is only applied during retrieval and not when cutting the record.

No, that is not correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization

The correct answer nobody wants to give is vinyl always sounds better because even if all you do is drag a stylus through it this at least is analog, and analog beats digital, full stop period.

Nobody wants to give that answer because it makes no sense.

Thanks to everyone who responded to my initial question. I'm leaning towards confining my future vinyl purchases to true analogue recordings, buy CDs of digital recordings by artists I really want to support, and stream the rest. 

 By the mid 1980's just about everything was recorded digitally

that's not true