Apparently, iTunes Music Store album artwork is not being carefully looked at before being posted. Apple-X.net’s “michaelangelo” reports, “Earlier in the day (Sunday, July 10th 2005), I stumbled across an EP with some racy artwork that should most definitely be marked as being explicit, or at least censored until downloaded.”

The EP is “I Cry” by Akira Yamamoto. “michaelangelo” reports, “If you look at the artwork you can tell that some female genitalia of the southern region will be seen once downloaded… With Apple offering higher resolution artwork these days there are going to be some mad parents if a child comes across this and buys it. There is no warning whatsoever that the artwork contains explicit material.”

After some further investigation (hey, somebody had to do it!) MacDailyNews has also found MORE explicit artwork that’s not labeled on Apple’s iTunes Music Store:

• Digital Recall’s album “Do You Remember”
• Markus F’s EP “Gates of Eden”
• Budapest & C-Base’s single “In The Beginning”
• Trance Rocker’s single “Behind Blue Eyes”

MacDailyNews Take: You’d think the record label’s name for all of the above releases would raise a red flag at Apple. It’s “Dirrty Budapest.” In order to illustrate the “where do you draw the line?” argument, does anyone consider Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” album cover to be “explicit?” Should Apple be labeling artwork “explicit” as they do with lyrics? And where the hell is Tipper when you need her?

Related MacDailyNews articles:
Mossberg: Some openly pornographic podcasts slip onto Apple’s iTunes Music Store – July 06, 2005