Can't synch songs from iphone to macbook itunes?

I must have accidentally deleted the five most recent albums I bought on itunes from my computer, because on my itunes I get an '!' next to them, and I can't find them on my computer or my external hard-drive (where I generally store my music, and have backups of my computer). I then tried to redownload these from itunes, but if I click on them in store I just get 'already downloaded' and I can't do anything - I can't even buy them again.
On my iphone, I could recover the songs using the cloud symbol, so I have them there, but now I can't get them from the phone to my laptop itunes. I tried transfer purchases, but it didn't work - nothing seemed to happen, and then I still get the '!' and 'itunes can't locate your files' message on my macbook itunes.
Is there any way I can get the songs from my iphone to my macbook? All the missing albums were purchased from itunes, some on my phone, some on my computer, both on the same apple account.

Try this:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
you should be able to download the songs again using you purchase history.

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