ITunes 7 "Album by Artist"

iTunes 7 replace "album" with "album by artist", which totally screws up listings in all views (list, album, flow). This is totally different from the sense of flipping thru CDs album-by-album, NOT album/artist-by-album/artist.
Is there a way to get a standard album option anymore?
This needs to be FIXED. Apple needs to have some way to use this in the expected way.
Tecsi
Windows XP Pro

Place your pointer over the column album by artist and click it....whaola,,,,choices are album - album by artist - album by year - - with an arrow at the side you can choose acending or decending
This can be done on all columns
I for one like the newer options including this feature as now you can place the song order anyway that suits you

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