Purchased DRM restricted music, now its on iTunes Plus

I purchased some music from iTunes that was DRM restricted, looking back at the artists album I see now that their tracks are on iTunes Plus and therefore DRM Free.
Is there any way of redownloading the unrestricted tracks, or do I really have to pay again just to use the music how I want?
Any help input, Cheers.

hi
Well, you will need to sign in > click on iTunes Plus, there will be this option 'upgrade my library' - check it out it will have all the new un-drm versions of the songs & videos you had purchased perviously.
Upgrade charge: 0.20p per song / 0.40p per music video.
Keep in mind you cannot upgrade per song or video... if have many songs & videos you will need to upgrade them together at once.

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"All songs offered by the iTunes Store now come without DRM protection. These DRM-free songs, called iTunes Plus, have no usage restrictions and feature high-quality 256 kbps AAC encoding.
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