Man yall need to kool ya shit, You guys dont even know what you're talking about, almost none of record sales goes to the artist it pretty much all goes to the slaveowner record labels, artists get there money from Tours and Merch, so download all you want your only hurting the fat cat record label owners.
as for the cds ofcourse since dre's death his stuffs gonna go up, and it's all supply and deman my man, if people want the CD real bad and the storeowner knows there place is one of the only suppliers in the area they're gonna jack up the price, it's buisness.