I Can't Get Artwork For Albums

Hello Folks,
I am new to this forum and did a search but didn't find any results pertaining to my issue. I just bought a new Ipod Classic and am now in the process of importing numerous music cds that I have collected over the years. In that process I am finding that when I select "get artwork" from the menu in Itunes, it is not getting all of my albums artwork. Can anyone help me with this one? The albums I have are not that old that they would be so out of date, I don't think.
Any help would be appreciated.
Jim

jmhlincoln wrote:
Ok, so if I understand correctly, I want to look for one at a time each album that I don't have artwork for on the ITunes Store sight to see if they sell it, then change or match what they call the album and tracks exactly to what I have in my library? Then after doing that re-request the artwork search again? For those that I do not find for sale at the Store, then I can do a Google image search on those? If so, can you give me some details on how to do an image search on Google?
Visit images.google.com and enter the album name (and the artist, if it's not a distinctive album). You can also look for artwork at Amazon and Wikipedia.
It seems odd that when I now request the artwork download that the albums that are missing are not old, that old, so it must have to do with the exact matching of song names and title.
It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the age of the CD — the iTunes Store only sells music they have the rights to. There are thousands of popular and recent CDs the Store doesn't sell — Radiohead and Garth Brooks, for instance.

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