Yes, definitely different. As said above whether you like it more or less is a preference.
I mostly collect them because they look so amazing and I feel like it's the best way to support the artist money wise.
First of all, they're called "records." Vinyl should never be made plural. It sounds stupid.
Second, it depends on how the album was mastered. Pretty much anything released after the 1990s with the exception of some Arcade Fire and Jack White stuff is mastered digitally, so on a scientific level, any difference that you hear from the CD version is because of the surface noise & pressing imperfections rather than the audio itself. That said, when an album is recorded to analog sources, it will offer a higher and "different" quality to one recorded entirely with computers, but it's one your ears won't necessarily notice unless you have a good listening setup anyway.
For example, no Crosley turntable you get at Target is going to sound good, period, but certainly not good enough to tell the difference in quality. That said, a lot of the popularity of vinyl today is because people figure they'd rather own a collector's item that they can display if they're going to pay for music in any form.
It depends on your audio system and turntable unit. You'd need a good amp and a nice speaker set-up and definitely not a Crossley. It's expensive to get a set-up that you can hear a difference in.
I don't know about vinyls but CDs are supposed to have the highest quality possible because the songs aren't compressed like they would be in an mp3 or a streaming site.
