Copying Tunes to USB Stick

Unfortunately, I'm not (apparently) smart enough to intuitively figure out how Apple's products work, so your assistance is appreciated. All I want to do is copy tunes in a Playlist over to my USB stick (or whatever the hip, proper term for those things is....) so that I can then move those tunes to my PC -- where they can much more easily be worked with. When I attempt to SelectAll, Copy & Paste into the USB icon on my Desktop, it "doesn't take" ... no tune files are pasted into the USB stick (that would, needless to say, be waaaaaay to simple -- so there must be some other this-is-Apple's-cooler-way-to-do-it that I'm not cool enough to figure out. Or is this a procedure too sophisticated for Apple's MacBook. (Yes, I am cynical; I'm just more than tired by the complete lack of common sense, intuitive application procedures when it comes to Apple products -- it's all about "look how cool and clever we've made THIS one ....)

Thank you. Unfortunately, this process merely reinforces what I dislike about iTunes/Apple products, since the tunes I want to copy are in a Program File, which is not how going through Finder brings them up -- it only shows all the artist files. So, if there are different artists in the Program that I want to copy, I would have to go back through the Artist Files one-by-one and drag tunes one-by-one; typically Apple stupid; further, what is the point of building in the additional steps of having to go through Finder when it would be logically simple to be able to go to iTunes, highlight, drag and paste. But, no, that kind of common sense doesn't exist in Appleworld, does it.
So now I've gone through the steps you suggest, successfully copying the tunes to the USB stick; however, when I attempt to open them and play them on my PC, they (of course, in the best Apple "you'll do it OUR way or no way" mentality) can't be played on anything except iTunes ...
Go figure.
Thanks anyway.

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