Recover Purchased Music from Virus-Infested Computer

So my computer with all my music had a virus eventually leading to the failure of the hard-drive resulting in all my files being lost, including itunes. Although I learned from this catastrophe to start backing up, I wanted to know if I could recover my purchased music. I spent quite a decent amount so it seems ridiculous that Apple is just going to leave me hanging like that. Any insight anyone

Welcome to AD!
My insight would be, it takes a catastrophe such as the one you described, to convince folks they need to make regular backups.
Do you have all your content on an iPod, perhaps? I wouldn't call that a true backup, but it could do in a pinch.
You can ask iTS support for another download, but I doubt they'll say yes.
Go ahead, though; the worst that can happen is they'll say NO.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/
Best of luck!

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