How do I redownload itunes music files deleted from my harddrive?

My hard drive was damaged and  now I've lost at least half of my purchased music.  DO NOT LINK ME TO THE SUPPORT PAGE HERE ON APPLE!!!!! That method does not work  for songs that are pre-iCloud and don't try to tell me otherwise! these songs are not on any of my devices, I have a new iphone and that it is (my old one was damaged beyond repair, lost a lot of files on that too). I have records of purchasing all of these items  on the itunes store yet I cannot find the option to re-download them. When I look them up in purchased,  it gives me the option  to play them then  just asks me to locate the file, which  I  cannot as  it is not on my  new hard drive. I am very, very angry with apple for not giving me this option as I've  given them hundreds of dollars,  those songs belong to me now and I have every intention  of  getting them back. I would appreciate some  help doing so  if you would be so kind. Thank you. 

Does it show in the Purchased link under Quick Links on the right-hand side of the iTunes store homepage ? If the track is no longer in the Music part of your library then it should show there with a cloud icon against it for redownloading. Or you can go into Edit > Preferences in iTunes, and on the Store tab there should be a 'shows iTunes in the cloud purchases' tick box, ticking that should get music to show in the Music part of your library with a cloud icon against it which you can click on to redownload it (again the 'locate file' entries will need to be deleted for them to show).
Store preferences tab (there is a bug on this forum affecting images so it might not show) :
If the tracks still don't show with the cloud icon then try closing/re-opening iTunes.
If you've taken a backup of your iTunes library then only you will need know what you did with it. Do you have any external drives that you might have copied your library onto ? A backup of an iOS device does not include the contents of its Music app.

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