There are three paragraphs in the article discussing that photo and the surrounding controversy. It would have been annoying to make the reader have to leave the article to actually see the photo.

That photo was unremarkable when the album was released, and was in shop windows everywhere. It's hardly erotic -- c'mon, it's an 11 year old!

[edit: I re-read the part of the article, and I don't remember record shops freaking out, which I surely would have heard about at the time. Even the company that sent out albums unasked-for to household sent it out]