ITunes not finding album covers

Hello, I've decided to upload my albums to iTunes. But I'm becoming more and more furstrated as iTunes can't seem to find a lot of the album covers.
I've tried Tune-up but I've used up all the free album covers they give you. Is there any other 'Simple to use' apps/programms that can help me with this problem?
Many thanks,
Moodyblues1977

I wouldn't be in a hurry to upgrade to 8.2.
Make sure that the *Album Artist* and Artist of your album matches up with what's in the iTunes Store EXCEPT if the artist has an ampersand (&) in it. Then put in everything up until the space before the ampersand. (You're free to edit the info after you've gotten the correctly downloaded artwork.) In some cases you may not get the correct artwork no matter how you match the data.

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