Deleting itunes tracks that I purchased but didn't download properly and have no known file

I purchased a new album and I had to leave for work shortly after it started downloading, so I just left my computer on to finish. It should have only taken a couple minutes to download. When I came home, only a few of the 18 tracks downloaded. The rest had the ! next to it in the faded grey and had to source file. I couldn't redownload it from iTunes as it said it was already on my computer. I updated my laptop with my purchases and then copied the songs that were missed from my laptop to my desktop. It's all good there now, but now I have a bunch of tracks on my iTunes that will not play, have no file location, and they will not delete. They are unchecked and when I right click on them to delete them, they just won't. How do I remove these tracks?

I don't use smart playlists (don't even know what they are actually). I'm just trying to delete them from my main music library. Here's a screenshot of what I'm  looking at. Right clicking and selecting delete does nothing. The shift delete does nothing. When I go to get info and select file info, it has nothing for file location. Any suggestions?

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