Music app streaming w/ data off and no WIFI

I've experienced issue after being new to tiered data plans. I've had years of grandfathered data plan but finally decided to switch since I didn't seem to use  lot of data in order to lower my monthly bill.
Let me start by saying I work for an un-named WIFI company. Meaning Im around WIFI for over 8 hours a day and WIFI at home. After receiving my iPhone 6 i'm almost at my plans limit of 1GB. I've already upgraded to 2GB. I did some research and found a few issue. I had to load my phone from scratch due to the rep pushing me threw the connection screen and not allowing me to do a restore. After a bit , I thought this was a good idea since I had an iPhone 4 w/ ios7. Since iPhone 6 was on IOS 8 I moved forward.
So I noticed that my apps and photos were downloading w/ data despite being connected to WIFI. After some dinging I've determined this is due to WIFI being dropped when the phone is in a sleep state. Seems this same issue is accounting for over 50MB of data in the middle of the night. Needles to say i've changed some habits quickly.
No background refresh!
Turned off all diagnostic info pushes!
Turned off the majority of apps using Cellular data!
I also turn off Cellular Data when im at work or home for extended periods on WIFI! This seems to be the only true way to get all your apps to use WIFI,
So this leads me to the issue Ive seen and cant explain.  I bought a 16GB model which only seems to have available 12.2GB ( Thanks apple for dropping yet another GB of over all available space on the phone, I would have got a bigger phone knowing this.) Since my space is limited I like to stream my music on WIFI instead of downloading it to the phone. To accomplish this I turn on Show all MUSIC under iTunes and APP Store. This gives me a link with in the music app. When i have a internet connection it streams the song. Due to data consumption issue i have disabled the Music App under Cellular Data. This means that outside of WIFI connection I wont be able to play streaming music from the Music App.
IRONICALLY, this doesn't seem to be the case! I can stream music when i'm in my car. To be clear, i am not connected to WIFI with the Cellular data turned on for the phone but off for the Music app. This has to be a bug!  Any thoughts or experiences like this?

So I think I have figured this out.  Seems the way the music app is displaying has changed compared to IOS 7. It would clearly show the difference between a downloaded song and streaming song. Seems just registering the phone downloaded about 133 songs. Not sure how it chose them other than maybe last downloaded songs. With the show all songs feature for iTunes turned on, All my songs looked like streamers even though a few were downloaded. Some of the streamers were grey and some were black. Black ones were downloaded. So if anyone else is wondering here's the answer.

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