Authorization on a defunct ID

Months ago I changed ISP and therefore iTunes ID. All fine until suddenly, no warning, I couldn't access tracks I'd bought on the old ID. Catch 22 is I can't authorize or de-authorise this old ID because, of course, that email address (ID) no longer exists. So I'm frozen out of a lot of music I've purchased.
Anyone got any clues on this?
thanks in advance, I hope!
cerrig

It seems iTunes store does care about the old ID
That's what I wrote.
That's also why I wrote you do not need (and should not) get a new iTunes ID. Simply update he old one with all your current info (address, email, credit card, etc.)
Then you will not have music on a bunch of different acounts.
since we purchase tracks, why does iTunes Store need to verify them?
It doens't really. You need to authorize th ecomoputer to play the tracks since teh DRM only allows them to be played on 5 computers.
Richard Barnscombe doesn't verify a CD I buy from Virgin everytime I play it
It's Richard Branson. Manufactureres have not had a good way to use DRM with CDs. If they did, it would have been implemented along time ago.
re these tracks ours, or not?
Sort of. You purchased a license to listen to them and use them in the way the license says you can. Same as when you purchase a CD. You do not "own" the songs.

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