The music industry trying to profit from an artists death? What a shock. While it is a little off to put the price up, at the same time why not? The people who are suddenly going to rush to buy the album aren't exactly going to be the massive fans of her who supported her and already own the material. They will be people who get reminded of her music because she just died.
Things like this always happen. This is far less worse than when music companies put out albums/material that was never meant to be released.
In some cases it's not too bad. With Otis Redding and Dock of the Bay for example the whole album had been recorded as an album before he died. So I think that's fine. There may have been a few small changes in production but he had recorded and album and was happy with it.
But then you look at something like Amy Winehouse with Lioness. Where the songs on it were never meant to be an album and where material the artist themself had declined to release have been included. In that case it clearly isn't about the artist's work and respecting them but about seeing how much money you can make from their death. The artist had no control over anything on the album at all and it's just disgusting. I actually rather disliked Amy Winehouse, but I felt sorry for her that her 'friends' and family had decided to release something she didn't want to release just to make money.
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