Purchasing music from apple

I have 2 computers with iTunes loaded on them and would like to keep them both with the same music on them. However, currently it appears that I have to purchase music on one computer then copy the entire iTunes folder over to the other computer to keep the same music on them.
Is there a way to get iTunes to stay synced between the two computers so that when I purchase a song on one of them, its transferred to the other?
Thanks,
glenn

cybercrypt13
The difficulty in doing this is that while it's easy to move files between the two Macs, the tricky piece is updating the Databases.
One way of doing it is to download a copy of Hazel for each machine. Hazel is a utility that will perform certain tasks when certain conditions are met.
For instance: On Machine A: Set set Hazel to watch your iTunes Music Folder. Then when you add music you can get it to automatically copy the music to Machine B.
On Machine B set Hazel to watch the incoming folder, and automatically import the music to the database.
Result, changes on Machine A are mirrored on Machine B.
Regards
TD

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