ICloud and iTunes:  Where did it go?

I paid up for iCloud to be able to have my music backed up on the Cloud.  The last time, my MAC crashed fatally and I lost everything--even though it was supposedly backed up on another server.
Anyway, this time I backed up everything to the Cloud!  Or so I thought.
I just purchased some new iTunes music and wanted to back it up to the Cloud.
Uh, oh.
No iCloud on iTunes.  Went to Sys Pref and iCloud.  No way to back it up there either since iTunes isn't an option.
Went through every iTunes menu.  Nothing there either.
Where did all my 'Cloud' music go to?  Where is the iCloud backup for iTunes?
Why is everything on Apple such a hassle?!?!?
Please don't tell me I have to go to the 'genius bar' to get this cleared up.

Hi Banktank,
iCloud does back up your Music, but you have no direct way to acces it. Also, iCloud is not intended to be a backup for your computer. If you want to protect your computer, you should be backing it up to an external drive using Time Machine.
The primary purpose of iCloud is to provide you with a single source to share Music, Photos, Documents, etc. between your devices and your computer. It is not designed as a backup, but can be used to back up certain information for your IOS devices - not your computer. Here is an article explaining this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4859
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
GB

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