On another note, if you have to pay Rs.250 or 350 for a western album, you might as well buy them from abroad. If you buy lots of 30 LPs or so, shipping interestingly turns out to be quite affordable. For example, if you look carefully, a lot of 30 LPs would cost around $15 to $20. Ordinary shipping would be about $30 to $40 so you'd end up getting them for around $60 which is about Rs.3600/- by current exchange rates. Hence you'd end up paying just over Rs.100/- per LP and that too for lovely American pressings. I have bought records like and all purchases have turned out to be good.
However the flip side of this approach is:
1) not all ebay.com sellers ship worldwide
2) sellers usually charge high shipping rates for worldwide shipping saying that they have to fill additional documentation, travel greater distances to the post office and what not, don't go by international rates quoted on the advert. Negotiate separately. Avoid first class shipping. Also some sellers (like those on ebay.in) charge high shipping and make a cut off it
3) You wont get albums of your choice, these are usually sold in lots.
4) Any record lot related to rock music is expensive, heavy metal LPs are mighty expensive
I will never buy if anyone offers me an english or western LP for more than 100 bucks in India, whatever be the excuse, like current rates in the sellers city, etc. A Gramaphone Co of India Ltd, CBS India or Polodor India pressing can never match the American ones (except rare exceptions).
Here is a classic example for half dollar LPs:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-65-L...3016266?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item1e7e010a4a
