In the iTunes age, the simple pleasure of holding up a piece of 12″ x 12″ cardboard, or even a CD case, and ogling hotness, is going the way of the dodo. So before this particular art form is lost forever, let’s pay a little homage to

Some Seriously Hot Album Covers.

She must be wearing 16 layers of lipstick. And that mischievous open smile? Ah-ooga! Who is this mysterious siren? (she’s actually Natalya Medvedeva. She was a 17 year old Russian model when she posed for the Cars first album cover as well as Playboy. She went on to become a novelist, published poet, wife of National Bolshevik Part leader, and Parisian piano bar singer. She died of a heart attack in her sleep in 2003 at age 44). But for that one moment in 1979…

Don’t know her music. Guessing I wouldn’t like it. Don’t care.

See above.

Retro hot. Mad Men without the complications. The only unanswered question: shaving cream or whipped cream?

Proof that seemingly sexless skinny white boys know from hotness, too.

Remember: it’s not racist because the band is black.

A little something for the ladies…

And a little something else for the ladies. Hell, and the guys, too. I’d wanna rub that dome.

Unattainable, ethereal hotness. Roxy Music is famous for using images of tasteful, hyperstylized, classically beautiful women on its album covers….with one glaring exception:

It’s not the see-through undies that are a little vulgar for Roxy Music. It’s the pun. The title of the ablum is “Country Life.” Get it?

No list of hot album covers would be complete without a little hair metal hotness….