My hard drive crashed and I lost everything. How do I get all my itunes purchases restored?

My hard drive carshed so Best Buy installed a new one. I had to reinstall all my apps including itunes. how do I get all the songs I've pirchased back?

If the hard drive mechanically doesn't work anymore and if it doesn't make financial sense to spend  $2000-$3000 or so for specialized platter recovery services...there is no option...
,,,however if it's just the OS that's fried, a $20 powered IDE/SATA to USB adapter can be used on the drive, make it just like a external drive.
..EVEN if the file structure is fried and malware deleleted the files, software like DataRescue can be used to recover the files directly from the 1's and 0's on the disk.
The best recovery is backing up your data and preparing for the unexpected.
Apple won't re-issue your content.
Good Luck. Sorry to break the bad news.
EDIT: Hold on, just saw you have  a iPod Touch.
There is third party software that can return the files off the iPod Touch, check over at iLounge what currently works.
I can't suggest such software here, it can be used to facilitate piracy.

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