How to remove music purchased on iPhone from both iTunes and iPhone?

Extremely frustrating and I can't seem to find an answer. I purchased an album on iTunes, and I actually don't want most of the songs from the album unfortunately. I bought it on my iPhone, and I want to get rid of the songs that are bad.
When I delete them from my iTunes and then sync, the first thing it does is redownload all the ones that were deleted. I have tried only selected songs and playlists, and it still doesn't work.
Key thing is that I DON'T want these songs anymore, and I can't get my new music onto it without it redownloading all the bad songs. Help please?

Attempting what I think might work in case someone else encounters this problem.
First, allow all of the songs to be synced back onto your computer that you deleted.
Second, uncheck all of the songs from that album, or in the music section of the device page select all artists except for the ones that are in the album.
Third, sync with the iPhone, and make sure either only selected songs,playlists,etc. is clicked or only checked songs.
Fourth, these songs should be off of your phone, in this case delete them off of your computer and then they should be gone forever.
Will reply with the results.

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