We saw news footage of cars on fire, of riots and looting, like a compilation tape of civil emergencies past made current.

No lovingly annotated compilation tape for the missus (or missuses).

Unlike records, they tap into the nostalgia for homemade compilation tapes.

There are flat-screen televisions everywhere showing compilation tapes of wet-sari musical numbers.

The original vinyl issue had suffered in audio quality from improperly mastered compilation tapes and also by the process of squeezing so much material on each side of the records.