This is a lovely peevological case study. Show your support in the fight against vinyls with a plural of vinyl shirt, available at your local independant record store … There's even a eponymous web site - which would be more convincing if it didn't misspell "independent":
But just so you know there is no such word as “vinyls.” The plural of vinyl happens to be vinyl and I’ve never heard someone with a vinyl collection use the term “vinyls.” Usually its some mp3 downloading kid who has never held a record in their life saying this incorrect and highly frustrating word. To answer the previous question, though, we have about 12,000 LPs in stock, as well as some assorted 12" singles and 45s. " Zzz Records' Frequently Asked Questions": I've been on some forums where people are tarred & feathered for saying "vinyls." The plural of vinyl is "vinyl" like deer is the word for multiple deer. Man, I hate to be the school marm but… "Vinyls" is not a word. anything i can say to shut him up? is vinyls a real word? but he went to uni and is about 20 so obviously he is right. Having a bit of an argument with someone that has only just started buying records that the plural of vinyl is vinyl. Thank you for your avoidance of this increasingly widespread "vinyls" wrongness. This has been a public service announcement. Some other plural options: records, LPs, albums, vinyl records. We've all been out of our depth at one point or other. Cos doing so makes you sound like you buy your music exclusively from Urban Outfitters.
Just a heads-up, so you can stop saying/typing "vinyls". " The plural of vinyl is vinyl", Drowned in Sound : When you know the rules, you can break them-but only once every three months. I am guilty of occasionally using vinyls, but it's always deployed in a tongue-in-cheek manner. This issue came to my attention twice yesterday: once on Twitter, where someone griped about people using the term "vinyls" to describe more than one record the other instance occurred while perusing Sonic Boom's holiday zine, in which a clerk informed its readers that vinyl is indeed the plural term for vinyl (the same principle applies to fish, buffalo, and sperm). Thus Dave Segal, " What Is the Plural of Vinyl?", : This is an issue that some people feel very strongly about. According to this"rule", instead of "many of these records", I could have written "many of these vinyl", but not "many of these vinyls". If you don't hang out with millennial hipsters, you might not have noticed that the cool kids are listening to music on turntables playing old-fashioned vinyl records, with many of these records being newly released rather than rescued from thrift shops. And you might also have missed a fascinating case of peeve emergence: the "rule" that one of these objects is called a "vinyl", while (say) three of them should be called "three vinyl", never "three vinyls".