Cannot Download Old Purchases

I have been downloading music from iTunes for the past four years and for about the past five months, iTunes has not recognized a vast majority of my previous purchases on any of my devices: iPod touch or two PC's. I haven't changed any of my account information, even my password, in four years (yes, not the smartest idea, but still), so I have no idea why this is messed up.  The only thing that I can think of is that I will put my credit card information onto iTunes when making purchases and then remove it in an effort to curb excessive purchases .  I probably have over 200 songs that I have purchased on iTunes in the past four years that it will not even recognize as my purchases, with the exception of about 40 songs purchased over the past month.  I searched for a song that I have purchased in the store (made sure that it was the correct album) and even then iTunes did not say that I had purchased the song.
Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Hi Daniel8933,
This article provides information on how to access a list of previous purchases and download them again:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
If it is possible that multiple Apple IDs were unintentionally used to purchase the items, you can use this article to find your other potential Apple IDs:
Apple ID: Finding your Apple ID
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5625
The last thing I wanted to mention was any purchases on your iOS devices that you want to put on your computer can be transferred as described here:
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1848
I hope this helps!
- Ari

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