With the recent popularity of digital downloads off sites such as iTunes, less people are purchasing actual "old fashioned" CD's. The real tragedy in the migration to digital music downloads is that we may soon loose the fine artwork that is currently know as CD/ album covers. In the past, people knew the importance of marketing and put in a lot of time/effort into their album covers. Take a look at some of these "fine" examples":
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers
a few of my favorites:
http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/worst-album-covers
a few of my favorites: