People, I love ya but there is no such word as VINYLS. It's "VINYL", no 's' at end.

R.E.M. box of twelve 7" vinyls.

 

I think I will go a listen to a gramophone record of the latest waxing by a popular beat combo. Vinyls are floor coverings, are they not?

 

It was probably REM who started saying it in the first place.

 

With alarming frequency, Kenneth.

 

How about we just go back to saying "Records"?

 

Never stopped.

 

I never hear "records"... it's always "vinyl".

 

Records for me too. When someone says they want to go to the VINYL store I ask them if they need new siding for their house.

 

Always "albums" for me.

 

"Album" is a collection of songs, though -- so an album could be a CD.
I know some will say that "record" can be "recording", but "record" has long been associated purely with records.

 

"Rekkids"

 

I corrected the owner of my local indie shop the other day after he referred to "vinyls." He was not amused.

 

The B&N clerk used the term "Vinyls" on Vinyl day. It does sound odd, but I'm betting "Records" originally sounded odd to refer to "recordings" as well.
So live and let live. It will probably catch on as an off beat way of speaking such as calling the Internet "the internets", "the interwebs". Perhaps they will be pressing analog recordings into some other material soon and we'll welcome the distinction by material. "Graphites"? "Carbons"? I recall reading once that a corn based product could be made into CDs and DVDs. <Insert corny pun here>

 

That's worse than vinyls.

 

Can we also add in the capitalization of the word vinyl? I've noticed this popping up quite a bit lately.

I can see it as a title or category header at a store, but "I finally got the new Rush reissues on Vinyl? Nope.

 

Hearing and seeing the word "vinyls" makes me want to punish the perpetrator.

I blame Urban Outfitters.

 

Really you could say that an album is a collection of something. For example, a photo album is is a collection of photographs (I know, we don't have those anymore either!) Record albums started as a book type of thing with several sleeve pages that each held a record (with one or two songs on each record). That was a record album.

If you say "records", I know what you're talking about. If you say "albums", I know what you are talking about. I even know what you are talking about if you collect vinyl.

If you say "vinyls" with an "s" at the end, it sounds like you're not using the word vinyl correctly.

 

Here's a record album:

 

I'm going to start referring to them as vinylsis, or is it vinylziz, wait vinylses?

 

Peoples ares sos stupids.

 

Good said.

 

I have not checked the 45s, but I do have two kinds of vinyls: black and transparent.

 

1 goose, several geese; 1 moose, several moose, not meese. The English language is here to entertain us.

 

It may have been said before (I'm not reading 57 other pages of replies to find out) but isn't it kind of like people thinking it is somehow cute to refer to the internet as the "internets" or "interwebs"???