Calling records Vinyl has been going on for over 30+ years, it was a way of distinguishing between formats for a given record title since the advent of CDs. It's that simple, but we have some boomers that are just getting back into records again.
Take the "Record Store" I posted earlier, Through the mid 80s and up when CDs took over if you went to a record store, or a store that had record as part of the name, they would only have CDs for the most part. A CD was the record put out by artist and sold as their record, only a very few had a vinyl copy. Records where DEAD in most retail record stores unless the store was a Used Record Store.
These used record stores promoted that they had used records and Vinyl records before you ever walked into the place. Signs out front, paper advertisement and then finally websites and internet adds. My record store put Vinyl in their name in 1984, Vinyl Solution Record Store. Vinyl was a solution to buying CDs and it was promoted that way since CDs came out.
When brick and mortar record stores started to vanish, online places continued the use of Vinyl to distinguish the different formats you where ordering.
If you think this is a new name your a noob and just getting back into records again. If your not a noob and have beed playing records all these years, you haven't been buying new ones online, or you just got out from under a rock. In fact you might have just started to use a computer that open your whole world.
That said call it whatever you want, but we are online and need others to understand what we are talking about. I haven't seen anyone in this thread say they don't understand what someone is talking about when the words vinyl record is used. But if you want me to list in Barter Town and just post a record title and not let you know the format I'm selling don't be pissed when you get a CD.