Importing previously purchased content to new itunes

My compuer had a bug and they completely wiped out my hard drive. I reinstalled Itunes on my computer and it easily added all the music found on my computer, but all of the music I previously purchased on itunes was nowhere to be found. I thought "check for available updates" might download my previously purchased content to my new computer. did i lose the hundreds of dollars of music i had purchased from itunes? Is there anyway I can use my account records to get all those songs into my new itunes library?

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Downloading past purchases from iTunes

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