Comp crashed - didnt backup songs - can i get my old music back?? =(

so i bought a new vaio - installed itunes and racked up a decent library. got the lovely "os not found" error and sent the lappy to sony. they gutted it and put in a new hard drive and now i have a new library but my old music is nowhere. most of it was on my iphone which is ALSO no longer working (i take care of my electronics, im not a scab, i dont even know what happened to that thing - made an appt for the genius bar so it can be looked at but thats beside the point...) is there ANY way i can get my music back? ive learned my lesson about not backing up my purchases. gah! i know.

If you didn't make a back-up of your purchases to restore from then I'm sorry to say that the policy on lost purchases is that you have to pay to download them again:
"Once a Product is purchased and you receive the Product, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage the Product, and Apple shall be without liability to you in the event of any loss, destruction, or damage." iTunes Store: Purchased content can be downloaded only once
You could try contacting the iTunes Music Store Customer Service and you might be able to persuade them to sanction a second free download. There have been occasional reports in the iTunes forum of this happening, however just be aware that they are not under any obligation to do so. If you click on the link at the bottom of this page you'll be able to email your query: iTMS Customer Service
You might also want to check out these pages for future reference:
How to back up your media in iTunes
Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive

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