How to delete audio backups? OSX 10.9.4

Hi.
I'm using OSX 10.9.4.
My 500 GB hard drive is getting full, so I moved my entire ITunes music library (160 GB) to an external hard drive, and then moved the iTunes Media folder to the trash, and deleted it on my Mac. The moved files are playing fine from the external drive.
Surprise!
No disc space was freed up at all, because iTunes (I guess) cleverly backed everything up automatically.
I've tried to find these backup files in order to delete them -- to no avail.
How do I get rid of 160 GB of backups??
Thank you!

Do you happen to use Apple's Time Machine to perform your machine's backups? Do you occasionally (or perhaps often) perform these backups while using only battery power?
If so, I recommend plugging your Mac in to the wall and performing a Time Machine backup. At the end of that backup, a cleanup process will occur. You will be able to see it if you watch the Time Machine process under System Preferences.

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