Why won't my purchased music transfer into my songs/albums folders?

I'm using the new format for ITunes for the first time, and have run into an issue. When I purchase songs, they go to my "Playlists" Folder, but when I click on my "songs/albums" folders I just see the picture of the laptop with the options to "Scan for Music" which does nothing, or go to ITunes Store, which does as it says.
The new layout is a bit confusing to me, but I have tried manually adding a file to my library which doesnt add them, and also going from my Purchased Playlist then clicking "Add To" it will bring up my Songs Folder and I can either select the songs and click Done, or not and click done...the songs folder slides away and nothing at all is transferred.
I'm a bit confused, why doesnt it simply add them to your normal library as before in addition to "purchased"? Beyond that, what am I missing in getting them into my library?

And if none of those work, you may want to try this test:
1. Deauthorize the computer.
2. Create a new user in the system.
3. Download the free song of the week from the iTMS in the new user account.
4. Play the song in that user account to authorize again.
5. Restore the iPod (using the iPod updater) in the new user account.
6. Sync just the free song of the week and see if it plays on the iPod.
If it does, you appear to have a corrupted iTunes library file, and you should recreate the iTunes library file in your normal user account, and then sync your music back to the iPod and all should be well.
The following articles will help you.
Authorization and Deauthorization.
How to create a new user account in Windows.
How to restore the iPod.
How to recreate your iTunes library.

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