ITunes songs

I bought many songs in my history of itunes and would like to download everything I bought in the past (from itunes store) to my new computer. How do I go about doing this? Is there a catalog of my purchase history and where can I download all of them on to my new computer?
I shouldn't have to buy them all again as I purchased them once already and technically, purchased the rights to download them onto my computer.
Any ideas on how to go about this? Can someone from Apple help?

How do I go about doing this?
If you have access to them on the old computer or elsewhere, move the song files or the entire iTunes library to the new one. If not, click here and contact customer support.
I shouldn't have to buy them all again as I purchased them once already and technically, purchased the rights to download them onto my computer.
Apple pays the copyright holders for each download of a purchased item other than an application. Therefore, you normally can't redownload them for free, and if you have access to the downloaded music, copy it to the new computer instead of asking Apple.
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