I need help transferring my music from my iPad 2 to my Macbook.  Just syncing the devices will wipe out my music on my iPad.

Please help!  My macbook needed a new hard drive and all my music got wiped away.  No worries, it's all on my iPad 2.  But when I try to sync the devices it warns me that it will erase all my current music on my iPad - it seems like syncing only moves information from the macbook to the iPad, not the other way around.  But I need it to go from my iPad to my macbook.
Can anyone help?

"*Partly, I guess, I just figured if my songs were on one of my devices I could just transfer them back to my laptop"
I told you this in my first response:
" The only exception is itunes purchases:  File>Devices>Transfer Purchases."
You may be able to purchase a 3rd party program to get other music.
So is what you're saying that I'm basically screwed, that there's no way at all to move music from my iPad to my laptop?  That seems absurd if true.
Really?  It is absurd not to maintain a backup copy of your computer.

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