In 2005, the U.S. National Recording Preservation Board included We're Only in It for the Money in the National Recording Registry as "Frank Zappa's inventive and iconoclastic album presents a unique political stance, both anti-conservative and anti-counterculture, and features a scathing satire on hippiedom and America's reactions to it".
I 2005 indskrev det amerikanske National Recording Preservation Board We're Only in It for the Money i deres National Recording Registry som "Frank Zappas opfindsomme og ikonoklastiske album repræsenterer en unik politisk holdning, både anti-konservativ og anti-modkultur, og det indeholder sønderlemmende satire over hippie-kulturen og Amerikas reaktion mod den".