How do I download previous music purchases without having to buy them again

How do I down load previous music purchases from iTunes.

You can currently only re-download music purchases if you are in the US (re-downloading), and then only if they are still available in the store and if you use the same iTunes account as you originally used to buy them. If you are not in the US then have you not got backups of your purchases on, for example, external drives or CDs/DVDs that you can copy onto your computer and add to iTunes ?

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