Streaming can’t deliver everything—Pink Floyd proves it with six pop-up stores celebrating 50 years of their masterpiece album
Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here turns 50 this December, and the band’s celebrating with something streaming can’t deliver—six pop-up stores across Europe and LA offering physical treasures you can’t download. The December 12-15 pop-ups hit London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Berlin, and Los Angeles, with December 12 marking both the store openings and the official anniversary release through Sony Music.
While algorithms curate your playlists, these shops curate something rarer: actual scarcity.
Where Analog Meets Artisanal
News & Coffee Studio transforms their specialty locations into Pink Floyd shrines for four days only.
The collaboration with News & Coffee Studio places these pop-ups inside their existing cultural spaces:
- London’s Granary Square (8am-8pm)
- Paris at 128 Bd Voltaire (9am-7pm)
- Barcelona’s Passeig de St. Joan (8am-8pm)
- LA’s Beverly Hills Newsstand (8am-7pm)
Milan’s Dischi Volanti record shop and Berlin’s Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus round out the locations.
You’ll find more than merchandise here—these spaces blend coffee culture with vinyl worship, creating experiences that feel like discovering a secret record store that only exists for 96 hours.
Limited Edition Means Actually Limited
Exclusive white vinyl and numbered Brain Damage fanzines won’t last through the weekend.
Each location carries an exclusive white vinyl pressing of Wish You Were Here available nowhere else—not online, not later, just these six spots. Glenn Povey’s legendary Brain Damage fanzine gets 250 numbered copies per main location, making it genuinely scarce in an era of artificial scarcity.
The stores warn fans to arrive early because inventory can’t be guaranteed to survive the full pop-up period. This isn’t manufactured urgency—it’s math meeting demand.
The Full Anniversary Treatment
Sony’s release spans formats from deluxe boxes to bonus content featuring Storm Thorgerson films.
The Wish You Were Here 50 release delivers multiple formats:
- Deluxe box sets
- Blu-ray editions with three 1975 concert films plus a Storm Thorgerson short
- Both 3LP and 2CD versions including nine studio bonus tracks
UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage contributed a commemorative poem while comedian Noel Fielding painted new Syd Barrett portraits—cultural crossovers that expand the album’s reach beyond typical reissue treatment.
Pop-ups represent something bigger than anniversary marketing. In a streaming world where music feels infinite and weightless, Pink Floyd’s betting that scarcity and physicality still matter. Your December 12-15 window closes faster than a four-minute song—but the vinyl lasts forever.
