A normal discography tells you an album came out. The Pink Floyd Archives tells you which pressing plant made the disc, what is printed around the label edge, which booklet came in the box, what the matrix says, and whether somebody changed the track order on the cassette.
Music historian and collector Vernon Fitch began the archive in the mid-1970s as a centralized collection of Pink Floyd material. The website opened in February 1996, which means the web presence itself is now part of the history it documents.
The collection covers records, singles, CDs, cassettes, videos, posters, tour programs, backstage passes, promotional material, books, magazines, photographs, autographs, radio releases, and more.
The detail becomes the point
The strongest sections are the discographies.
Different countries, formats, labels, pressings, box sets, promotional issues, military releases, and radio-only material are separated and documented individually. Entries can include catalog numbers, barcodes, release dates, pressing plants, matrix information, packaging descriptions, inserts, mastering details, and track peak levels.
This is collector knowledge made searchable.
It also solves a real research problem. Once an artist has been releasing music internationally for decades, “the CD version” is not one object. There may be dozens of physically different editions whose distinctions matter to collectors, archivists, mastering researchers, and people trying to identify what they actually own.
The site’s book database and concert material push beyond records into a broader reference library. Fitch has also published books built from the research, including encyclopedic and period-specific work on the band.
For a webmaster, the lesson is not “write more Pink Floyd pages.” It is that exhaustive specificity has compounding value. Every obscure matrix number or regional pressing gives another researcher a reason to land on the archive.
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If you need to know that Pink Floyd released an album, Wikipedia will survive the task. If you need to know exactly which copy is sitting in your hand, this is where things get serious.