Dead HDD, installing Yosemite from fresh.

Alright, here we go.
Recently, the HDD in my Mid 2012 Non Retina 13'' MBP, my hard drive died. I got the flashing question mark and whatnot, tried all solutions online to resurrect it, but to no avail.
I'm prepared to purchase a new drive, but the issue is, I need a Yosemite installer to reinstall the OS on the new drive. How do I go about downloading Yosemite to mount onto a USB for installation, if I don't have a working Mac to download it off the store with?
Any help is greatly appreciated, as it seems that I wont be able to get this going again.
Cheers

If you don't have another Mac you can access your App Store account from, download Yosemite, and create a bootable installer from it, then you need to boot into Internet Recovery Mode (Command+Option+R).
First use Disk Utility to set up the drive. Use the Partition tab to make sure the drive is GUID, then setup how ever many partitions you want and format them as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Quit Disk Utility and choose to install OS X. The version of OS X your Mac came with will be installed. Which for your model, with be Lion, 10.7.x. Once that's installed, you can download and install Yosemite.

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Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
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OS X v10.10 is already installed on this computer. Use the Updates page to install the 10.10 update or if you would like to download the full OS X installer click Continue.
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Ciao.

Dead HDD, installing Yosemite from fresh.

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