ITunes Mac App Store Affiliate RSS Feeds Broken ?

Looking at the affiliate RSS Feeds produced by Apple, Many of the backgrounds, instead of being transparent or at least white, are totally black.
I have no idea if it is just my Mac being silly, but I don't think it is :/
Check out the problem here: feed://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topmacapps/limit=10/xml
I will also insert an image to show you what it looks like:
The reason I am concerned is that I am currently running a "Top Mac Apps" section on my site that gets its rankings from these feeds, and recently most of the backgrounds of the icons are becoming black. It just look ugly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

I am certain that this is not "normal".
Only in the past few weeks, the black backgrounds have begun to slowly phase in, with an ever increasing number of broken backgrounds.
However I do agree that there is not much we can do about this at the moment, (unless you work for Apple of course).
I hope they fix it soon.

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