The music industry took took a kick to the balls during the 2000s due to illegal downloading and the answer to this was legal downloading, people can now buy albums at a much cheeper price in digital format from places like itunes and amazon and this is quickly taking the place of the compact disk. The problem with this is you have no physical object to handle. When you buy and album you would flick through the booklet during its first play, looking at lyrics and artwork, and although some songs let you view the lyrics and album art on your ipod it just is not the same.
Even though this takes away the joy of album art its still nessesary to have it, its needed so you can browse albums online just as you would in a record shop, it works the exact same way. (as seen in the screenshot below)
The album art will never die out, even though they are seen at an average of one square inch it will always be needed so in answer to the essay question yes its still relevent today.
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