Album Artwork for individual songs, not albums?

I'm wondering if this is possible--I'd like to use the "download artwork automatically" option, but want to know if there's any way to have it download artwork for only the first track on each album.
I was able to fit A LOT more music on my Nano when I deleted the artwork from subsequent (2+) tracks on each album.
Any ideas???
I'd also like to know if iTunes is "smart enough" to NOT transfer artwork to a Shuffle--no screen, so no reason to have the art. I just ordered a Green 2nd gen Shuffle and of course want to cram as much music on there as possible.

That does help, thanks! If the album art isn't embedded in the file, does that mean that it won't take up extra space on my device?
I use an old 4th gen iPod as a jukebox at my office, and it's running out of room so I don't want it to "blow up" the next time I connect it to my computer to add a song and it tries to add the artwork I downloaded to every file. . .
Sorry for all the idiot questions, sometimes I find that iTunes it *too easy* to use--it doesn't provide all of the options and arcane info in the help file that I'm used to with other apps!

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