IOS 7 continues iTunes in the Cloud downloads over cellular data, ignoring settings.

I have run into an *expensive* little bug in iOS 7.0.1.
Kids, don't try this at home:
While on wifi, turn on show all music or iTunes Match. Make sure "use cellular data" is OFF.
Go to music and start downloading something (like a playlist with about 3000 songs...)
Now turn off wifi or move out of range. Your songs will continue downloading over cellular data!
Kiss your data limit and your battery life goodbye.
There is NO WAY to stop the download queue, short of turning on airplane mode, and it will continue as soon as you turn it back off. You can go into iTunes downloads and manually pause each song, but only after they have started to download.  Restarting the phone or signing out of your iTunes account does not work. You can  also deselect songs that are pending in music, but again, you have to do this for every song.
I'll be calling AT&T tomorrow to try and get these overages removed, and Apple to let them know about this... I mean, really? How hard can it be to stop downloading when the wifi goes away? iTunes Radio stops immediately when you drop off wifi...

I just realized you can go into Settings->cellular and turn off cellular data for Music... that might work, but I don't know if it will stop downloads that are already running. I wonder if this is related to the multipath TCP implementation: once a connection is initiated, the app doesn't know when the network changes!

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