Where is my free album art?

Steve Jobs said in his September 2006 conference that all new iTunes account holders would receive the album artwork to the songs already in their music library.
I just signed up for an account today and would like to know how to do this. Can anyone provide any info on this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well, if Steve said so, it must be true
Select the song(s) of which you want to get the album artwork and control-click on the selection.
Then select 'Get Album Artwork' from the contextual menu.
iTunes will now contact the Store and start downloading the artwork.
Some notes:
You must use iTunes 7.0.x
Only artwork of available albums can be downloaded (so you can't get artwork from e.g. Led Zeppelin or The Beatles).
Name, artist and album of your song(s) in the library must match the ones in the Store.
Sometimes I couldn't get the artwork because it did not exactly match the ones in the Store. Recently, it appeared to me that slight variations in name still get the right artwork, so there doesn't seem to be a perfect match.
Hope this helps.
M

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