Missing Thumbnails or illustrations

I recently updated my itunes to version 6.0.4, everthing seemed to work fine, however on downloading some new songs from the itunes music store I noticed that there were no thumbnails or illustrations.
The old thumbnails or illustrations are still available, only the new downloads seem to be affected. I have changed no settings since the upgrade.
Has anyone one else come across this and do you know of a solution?
Many Thanks
Chris

I don't know why no artwork came. Until a few days ago I only downloaded complete albums.
After upgrading iTunes to 6.0.4, Bought some songs and didn't get artwork.
So I thought individual songs didn't come with artwork.
Reading some topics about artwork, the posters said individual songs did come with artwork until upgrading to 6.0.4
It looks like an issue with the latest upgrade, or something has changed at the iTMS at the same time.
Well, fortunately there is a workaround
M

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