Mondays cancelled the last few shows in order to rest in Texas. A series of headlining shows and festival performances took place between May and August 1991. Reissues and related releases Happy Mondays released their first live album in 1991, titled Live, which was recorded during a Leeds show earlier that year. It was previously released as an official bootleg under the name Baby Big Head, which drew comparison to the Who's Live at Leeds (1970). Wilson was fine with the band self-releasing the bootleg; the band's motivation for doing so in the first place stemmed from Factory owing the band around £100,000 in royalties. Rhino Records reissued Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches as a two-disc set in 2007, with bonus tracks and a DVD of the band's music videos. In 2012, daily newspaper The Guardian gave readers a free copy of the album in each newspaper. It was included in Rhino Records' Original Album Series box set in 2013, which collected Happy Mondays' first four studio albums. The album was re-pressed on vinyl in 2020. "Kinky Afro" and remixes of "Loose Fit", "Bob's Yer Uncle" and "Step On" appeared on Happy Mondays' first compilation album Double Easy – The U.S. Singles (1993). "Loose Fit", "Bob's Yer Uncle", "Step On" and a remix of "Kinky Afro" were included on their second compilation album Loads (1995). "Kinky Afro", "Loose Fit", "Bob's Yer Uncle", "Step On" and a remix of the latter appeared on the band's third compilation album Greatest Hits (1999). "Bob's Yer Uncle" and "Step On" appeared on their fourth compilation album The Platinum Collection (2005) "Kinky Afro", "God's Cop", "Loose Fit", "Dennis and Lois", "Bob's Yer Uncle" and "Step On" were included on the band's fifth compilation album Double Double Good: The Best of Happy Mondays (2012). Critical reception Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Stuart Maconie of NME hailed Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches as "a tremendous record, and a gauntlet chucked at the feet of all the other would-be legends in town". Los Angeles Times writer Jonathan Gold said any person with a "degree can tell you about pop’s post-modern condition, the simultaneous existence of all forms of music at once, but you rarely hear it expressed like this on a single record". Select Andrew Harrison referred to it as "[l]udicrously, expansively, stupidly excellent", going on to praise Oakenfold's