Possible to Remove 'Album' From iTunes Hierarchy?

I'm a 1 song per band kind of person, I have maybe 2 thousand songs and I probably have almost 1000 artists. The 'Album' folder hiearchy is completely useless to me and just another level that I have to transverse. Is it possible to Get iTunes Library to merely do 'Artist/Song' folder hierarchy?
Even better, I like the fact that it will automatically sort out a folder hiearchy by looking at tags to determine what Artist is involved, but I hate the fact that it then renames the file into just the song title. Is there any way I can get it to sort the files into the tag-determined folders without renaming the file itself?
Ideally, my final solution would look like this:
Pre-sorting:
File Location: C:\TuneFolder\
Physical File Name: Artist1 - GoodSong2.mp3
Artist Tag: Artist1
Title Tag: GoodSong2
Post-sorting:
File Location: C:\TuneFolder\Artist1\
Physical File Name: Artist1 - GoodSong2.mp3
Artist Tag: Artist1
Title Tag: GoodSong2
Anyway, thanks for helping out a newbie,
-R

As long as you have iTunes set to manage library and to copy files to library you are stuck with the album folder.
I believe that the renaming can be turned of but I have not done it.

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