I need mac app store

To make a long uninteresting story brief, I need some way to redownload the Mac App Store. When I upgraded to Snow Leopard from Tiger, i did not yet have an ipod or ipad or iphone so saw no purpose wasting 3Gb of storage on an app I would likely never use, and I deleted it.
Now I would like to upgrade to Mountain Lion, and have no way to do so unless I have some way of downloading the Mac App Store again. Why couldn't Apple just keep printing their software to DVDs? That one could purchase in a store with a roof and a cashier? or at least make the App Store readily available... I'm so worn out from all this hassle.
If anybody knows where I can find a download link on this confounded site, or some other way to upgrade my OS, or is at least in a similar situation so that I know I'm not a lone idiot, I would be very thankful!

When you upgraded to Snow Leopard you were later obliged to further update via the combo updater to 10.6.8.   You should now download and reapply that update then software update to pick up the latest iTunes and securioty updates.
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1
This you can do on top of the existing version.   That should put the App Store icon back in your applications folder.

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