Purchased Music Disappearing from iPhone?

My purchased music randomly disappears from my iPhone 6 (16GB). This happens to some songs, not all.
Details:
I purchase music from iTunes directly from my phone.
These are songs that I have had for months.
Go to play them and they are gone.
I go to the store and repurchase (download again).
Why are they randomly disappearing?
Very frustrating.

I'm having the same problem. Albums/songs that I've purchased on my iphone5 through iTunes keep disappearing from my music library. When I switch on the 'show all' setting in the iTunes and App store settings I can see it there again and download from the cloud, but it's still a pain in the *** having the keep re-downloading music that i've already downloaded! It only ever seems to be the last album I purchased that it happens to, and there doesn't seem to be any pattern to when or why it disappears. I thought maybe it might be to do with the overnight backup process, but my phone backs up every night when I plug it in to charge and the music doesn't disappear every night! It seems completely random. I go looking for a particular song and it just isn't there anymore. I've scoured the net but can't find a reason why this is happening.
It's an iphone5 on ios 8.0 Anybody got any ideas?

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