What Year Is It?

Why can't Apple simply put the year the album was released in the spot where the year the album was released is supposed to go? I marveled a long time ago at the wonders of Tivo's showing what year each show comes from. iTunes supposedly gives me that option, but albums such as Boz Scaggs' debut which I think came out in the late 1970s was released, according to iTunes on October 18, 1988. I have to google each album and spend minutes looking for what year they actually were released. How hard can this be, Apple? And another thing, put in the name of whoever wrote the damn songs since you offer us that viewing option too.

Sigh.