We hope like hell to be fully moved to Pittsburgh (the sooner the better), before the unveiling of the rebranded “Trump-Washington Monument”.

Junior Cook Quartet / The George Coleman Octet: Stablemates. Affinity CD AFF 766 [UK 1990]

I have had many CDs & CD-Rs fail and ticks are the usual audible result. Static is the next one and it usually only happens with a very damaged disc. Dead discs won't play. That has only happened with a few discs in my experience and those CDs looked like somebody tap danced on them. But again - the audio equivalent of this is not simply a messed up sound stage. No way. An audio equivalent of this would be static or pops. Photo files are typically decoded by lines. That last picture clearly had lines of damaged data. This much damage can be shown as colored blocks in a photo but that is likely the photo display programs method of interpolation. Audio can't "patch up" that much blank space and will mute the audio or even stop playing.

That last picture is a good example.  The picture is there, but degraded.  The picture doesn't cut off half way.  There are bits of missing data spotted throughout.  Q.E.D.

Not at all. i just googled "distortions caused by corrupted photo files" and got stuff like this... with the closest picture that looked like a distorted image looking so bad that an audio equivalent to this would not be listenable... Most of the examples are just missing parts of the picture. In an audio file, this would be very audible.