The EP was so successful that Rod Smallwood reports that several fans asked for copies of "The Soundhouse Tapes" at their local record stores, to the point where HMV and Virgin tried to order 20,000 copies each. Smallwood states, "we could have really cashed in at that point. It was our record, not EMI's, and we could have made enough to clear our debts, if we'd wanted to, maybe got it in the charts, even. But there was just no way. It really was something special for the true die-hard Maiden fans, and we'd already made that quite clear. If we'd changed our minds, just to get our hands on a bit of cash, it would have been selling out the kids who'd gone to all the trouble to send in for one of the original 5,000 copies. We thought, 'No, we'll wait until we can do it properly with EMI.'" Today, the EP is considered a valuable collector's item, with "Record Collector" reporting in 2011 that copies of the original have been purchased at up to £800.