Founded 1988.

Pretty Hate Machine released November 1989.

Written, arranged and produced by Trent Reznor.

Head Like A Hole, Down In It, Sin released as singles/videos.

Broken EP released September 1992. Happiness In Slavery, Wish released as singles/videos. Initial pressings feature bonus disc of Physical (You're So) and Suck.

Fixed companion EP follows in November 1992, featuring remixes by J.G. Thirlwell, Coil, Butch Vig and Reznor himself.

The Downward Spiral released March 1994. March Of The Pigs, Closer, Hurt released as singles/videos.

Further Down The Spiral is released in 1995, featuring reinterpretations by Aphex Twin, Rick Rubin, Coil, and others.

Trent Reznor announces October 8, 2007 on NIN.com that Nine Inch Nails has fulfilled all contractual commitments to Interscope and is now "a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label."
 

Despite Universal Music's initial refusal to host it, the official NIN interactive fan remix site remix.NIN.com launched November 27, 2007. Within a week, 84,000 user profiles created, 43,000 multi-track files downloaded, 900 remixes uploaded and 670,000 remix files played.
 

Trent Reznor enlists Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder with help from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione to create spontaneous, impulsive soundtracks to daydreams with no agenda or release date, only a self-imposed 10-week time limit.
 

Ghosts I-IV released 6:00 p.m. PST March 2, 2008 via NIN.com: four volume collection of 36 untitled instrumental tracks, nearly two hours of music, recorded over that 10-week period. Rob Sheridan collaborates with Artist in Residence (A+R) to create accompanying visual and physical aesthetic.

The end result is a wildly varied body of work released in its entirety with no label-imposed limitations--musical, physical or otherwise.