Pasting cd cover in cover flow

When I find a CD cover in Google, for example, is there a way to copy it and paste directly in cover flow view?

Album art is dragged directly to the small album art window in the bottom left corner of iTunes. This automatically provides the art for both list view and cover flow. This method needs to be repeated for every individual song in an album.
To drag art directly for an entire album at once. Select all the songs in the album go to File>Get Info click yes for editing multiple entries and you will find in the pop up window an album art box. just drag the art directly into that box and it will automatically become the list view and the coverflow image for the entire album.
FYI some people have had trouble with art obtained via the 'Get Album Art' menu item not appearing on their iPod and I suspect that that method does not correctly write the files. Until an upgrade eliminates that problem I am manually dragging in album art for all albums.

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