"When We Lose This Commonality, We Start to Lose the Vernacular That Makes Pop Music, in All Its Forms, a Shared Experience"

"The myth of the Celestial Jukebox—that idyllic stereo in the sky that provides instant access to all recordings ever made—lies upon the assumption that because music is theoretically available for all to hear, the past is preserved and easy to access. Reality isn't quite so simple. Since the dawn of recording, our musical history has always been inherently tied to the existence of physical, sellable product: The initial release created the history, and the reissue facilitated the writing of history, whether it was through carefully constructed archival projects or the existence of re-pressings of popular titles."

In a 2016 Pitchfork article, Stephen Thomas Erlewine laments the decline of the compilation album.