Cannot access purchased music in iTunes

Hello all,
I just purchased an iPhone 5, 32 GB. I restored from a previous iCloud backup which seemed to go well. I noticed that some of my songs would not play. The album art displayed, but the songs would not play and skip to another. I read online that the best solution to this problem is to delete those songs from your device, and re-download them by accessing "Purchased" items through the iTunes app. I did this for several of the non-working songs and it worked great.
I noticed several songs by one band in particular (Depeche Mode) were not playing, so I deleted them all off my device. I then went to "Purchased" items in iTunes to re-download them, but now I see a loading graphic that freezes, and the albums/singles are not displayed. All of the other artists seem to work just fine, but for some reason, none of my previously purchased Depeche Mode songs are displayed.
I have 124 items from that group, and really want them on my new phone. Anyone else have this issue?
I am wondering if a solution to my problem would be to connect my phone to my computer and sync, but I would prefer to not do this. Any help is greatly appreciated.
-Daniel

You enable iTunes Match on your iPad by making sure your are signed into the Apple ID you used to subscribe in iTunes Match in Settings>iTunes & App Stores, then turning iTunes Match and Show All Music to On.
Also, iTunes Match doesn't use your iCloud storage plan so you don't need to purchase a storage upgrade to use it.

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