I agree to a degree, that "musically" new 7" was nothing exception, but sonically, I think it was great! It felt somehow dirtier, darker and more fierce than for example full length albums have been for long time. While musically very straight forward and make you think "they could do better"... but better how? I think return back to basics, the rugged sound, simplistic synth tones and such is not bad at all.
Same goes to the live tapes. I heard some people say that those short tapes were too simple, lo-fi and crude, but I felt like that 3 tapes set would have been really good album if couple tracks added!