[1][2] The album was first released as a box set of 4 colored 7-inch records in a run of 10,000.

[3][4] It helped to raise the profile of the independent label.

[7] Fourteen Songs for Greg Sage and the Wipers is the CD re-release of the album, expanded to include additional artist covers.

[8][9] Phoenix New Times praised "Up Front", calling it a "killer cut ... and a real firebomb of pure punk.

"[3] Vulture listed "Return of the Rat" as Nirvana's 55th best song (out of 72), writing: "Furious and loose, this is an incredibly faithful take on Sage’s version with just a little bit of its desperate, quivering edge lost in the process.