ladyislingering

Think about it. Before we had CDs or digital media, nobody called them "vinyls" because there wasn't a difference in disc formats. It just irritates me because people of my chosen era never would have said that (and it just sounds really dumb).

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Dr_Rez

But the term record could be used to describe a tape or cd or online album. When you say vinyl it is clear what you are talking about. People didnt say it then because their was no other alternative to mix it up with.

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Key

As much as I agree, I think the real issue is using the plural form of vinyl. Saying "vinyls" doesn't make much sense considering vinyl is the proper form be it singular or plural. Saying vinyls is like saying deers.

ladyislingering

I knew there was another thing I was forgetting.

Unless English is a person's second language, they need to learn their singular/plural words and how to use them. Otherwise it just makes me want to kick them in their stupid face.

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heker

Deers are pretty dumb. Youtube is full of videos of deers with locked horns.

Sometimes one is dead, or partially aten by wolves.

BloodFoxTK

personally, i have multiple albums on vinyl and i absolutely love them.

(photo of said vinyl to come at later date)

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Lisnaholic

^ Back in the old days, 78s and 45s were described by their speeds. I presume that because "thirty-three and a third" was a bit of a mouthful, the next format to evolve was called a Long Player because it dramatically broke through the +/- ten-mins-per-disc barrier that had always applied previously. For something like ten years, a Long Player was always called an "lp," then, (and I blame this on musicians and journalists) the vague and slightly pretentious word "album" became cooler to use and the term "lp" was pretty much abandoned.

Of course "album" as applied to music is not format-specific. In a way that works well if you want to talk about a collection of songs that is published in various ways. What is a shame is that "album" has completely ousted the term "lp", which would be the perfect name to use in this thread and which would have avoided upsetting ladyislingering.

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