How come I cannot download old purchases

I can see them in the cloud but the download link says "downloaded." I don't have them on my computer because my iTunes library sometimes "gets lost" between my harddrive and my external harddrive. So I lose my music files. It would be nice to be able to grab them from the cloud when this happens, but I can't.

You can already do this if the sougs were purchased though iTuens, or you have iTunes Match.  They should have a cloud by them in the Music library view.  You can also in the iTunes store under Quick Links click on "Purchased" to download content.

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