Transferring my music to new computer from Time Machine

There are probably several places I could have posted this but this seems to be the best place for the specific question I have.
My macbook pro recently died and I've got a brand new one and I'm having trouble transferring my iTunes library from the Time Machine backup to the new MBP. Unfortunately I wasn't the greatest at keeping my tags perfect and when I drop all my music into itunes many of the tags are nonexistent. I've tried using the backed up iTunes Library file with the new computer but transferring the music itself into iTunes sorts them in completely different folders than it shows in the library file.
I figure the best fix for this would be to dump all the music directly into the iTunes>Music folder directly from finder but when I do this I get this error message:
The operation can’t be completed because you don’t have permission to access “_”.
Any ideas on either how to gain "permission" or if there are any other ideas to get all my music transferred cleanly would be greatly appreciated. I've got about 80gb of music and about 4000 songs are missing significant pieces to their tags so going through and fixing them 1 by 1 is just not an option.
P.S. If you haven't done so already, I suggest going into iTunes, select all your music, right click and choose convert id3 tags so you can avoid any problems in the future.

I suppose there isn't necessarily a good reason but I just wanted to start fresh. I had accumulated a lot of stuff (apps, tweaks, extensions, overall junk, etc.) that was taking up unnecessary space and resources. It was my first Mac so I did a lot of messing around to learn the OS. With this new machine I feel as though I have a better idea what works/doesn't work and I can avoid installing every little thing because it looks like it might be helpful when in reality it just sits there unused. Everything has worked perfectly for me and I have everything set up perfectly save for this music issue (which in many ways it's the worst possible problem of all)

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