How can I purchase lion to install on my wiped MBP

I've just purchased a used MBP 13" and got started wiping the HD and doing a clean install of Lion. Before I erased the principal partition with the disk manager, 10.7.4 was installed and running fine.
As I wasn't the original owner, I can't reload Lion as my Apple ID doesn't match that from the previous install. I don't have the original system disks either. Any ideas for getting my system up and working again, ideally without a trip to the Apple Store?
Thanks!

It seems that I can't purchase Lion in an apple store - the only help they could give me was: log into the App Store on a friend's computer and purchase Lion. Now that it looks like Lion was pulled from the App Store today, I may well be screwed. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is it possible to completely wipe a hard drive and start over? I may be able to source a snow leopard install disk to do this.

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