How to install iTunes 11.4 back?

A few days ago I made the foolish mistake of "upgrading" (if you can say that) to iTunes 12 on my MacBook Pro (with OS X 10.8.5) and now I am in the biggest remorse... iTunes 12 is horrible, lacks of sidebar and make sync with iPhone / iPad a real nightmare. I tried to go back using my Time Machine backup but Apple has guarded their backs protecting the app from being replaces... so I tried another way: first I deleted that c.rap with AppZapper and then I reinstalled a fresh copy of iTunes 11.4 from a dmg installer (unfortunately all iTunes 11 installers were removed from the website) but I cannot get it working When I open iTunes an error message pops up warning that a system file is missing and iTunes should be reinstaled. I suspect that the "upgrading" has changed some system files besides the app itself and I am unable to go back... any help would be appreciated.
As all Apple updates since iOS 7, iTunes 12 is a mess. First iOS 7 and now iOS 8 screwed up all iDevices (short battery life, slow performance, and of course a childish awful design that hurt my eyes), then Mavericks (that turned my 16-Gb 512-SSD Core i7 Macbook pro into something similar to a cheap PC with Windows Vista!), and for the comments I've read on some forums OS X Yosemite is a handfull of trouble too. Fool of me installing iTunes 12... hope resolving how to roll back to iTunes 11.4

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