Quoted from ScottThePhotog:That's like the people who call records, "vinyl".
"Hey man, i got some new vinyls".
Ugh. Its a record, LP, or an album. Vinyl is what it is made out of...
I've always understood much of the malign for "vinyls" is that the word "vinyl" can be both singular and plural and using the letter 's' at the end is incorrect. I'm not here to rob you of a pet peeve, but I think you may be fringe even in the "don't call them vinyls" crowd. I'd think vinyl, when used in context of a recording, is fairly descriptive because an "album" can describe a CD, a booklet of 78s, etc.