My hard drive crashed and my songs were not stored on my iPod.

My eleven year old son Mike has an iPod Nano. Mike had bought about 40 songs on iTunes. Our hard drive crashed and my older son had erased Mike's songs from his Nano.
Is there any way to download the songs again? How can I contact iTunes to find out?

im sorry but unless you backed them up on a cd or flash drive they are probably pretty much gone

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