[citation needed] From July 2008, the album was made available for sale digitally through the iTunes Store in the United States and Europe, along with Medazzaland.

[3] In 2021, the band signed a deal for the album with BMG (along with Medazzaland, Astronaut and Red Carpet Massacre) which saw it being re-issued in the UK on various digital platforms.

[6] Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone[12] said: The well-named Pop Trash shows off their jaded hooks and nasty wit; it's for fans only, but those of us who still crumple at the opening hiccups of "Hungry Like the Wolf" will be glad for another fix.Stacia Proefrock of AllMusic[7] said: Some of the smooth, spacy ballads that were characteristic of their 1993 self-titled release show up here, but more often than not Le Bon is lost in a swamp of overproduction.

Not surprisingly, there are ephemeral confectionary delights [...] and a general witlessness, never more than when Simon LeBon keeps crooning "We'll all be famous for 15 minutes" as if he just thought of the idea.A reviewer for Salon called Pop Trash "a mediocre Britpop album",[6] while Q defended the album and said that "Pop Trash proves to be far from embarrassing".

Le Bon also recorded versions of this song in Spanish ("Alguien Que No Soy Yo") and French ("Un Autre Que Moi").