Remove drm from purchased

Hey, iWorld!
I have 1300+ songs on iTunes.  About 450 of them were purchased through iTunes; the rest were uploaded from CDs I had.  There are about 125 of those legally purchased songs that I want to play on my Samsung Galaxy S3 but I cannot figure out how to remove the DRM protection.  Again, I PURCHASED these songs so I am not asking to do anything illegal.  I just want to be able to play the music I purchased.
Also, can I use iTunes on my Samsung Galaxy S3 as an iPod of sorts?  The stock music player is not my favorite.  Any ideas?
THANK YOU!

I have a followup question about this, since I want to do something similar with my new Nexus 7, using DoubleTwist (which uses the iTunes library, but lets you sync with more devices).
Looking in the iTunes store it looks like 104 songs of the 1,233 songs in my library were purchased from iTunes. The rest I originally added from old CDs.
It seems a waste to spend $25 to remove the DRM of just those 104 songs. But I was wondering the following things:
If I did subscribe to Match and did not renew, have I lost anything other than the ability to store my non-purchased items in the cloud?
I understand that some songs are NLA (no longer available). The entire exercise would be not worth it if some songs are NLA. Is there a way to check before making my purchase to ensure that all my purchases are still available?
Any thoughts on just burning those 104 songs on CDs and then importing them back into iTunes? That will also remove the DRM, won't it? I read that reduces quality. I'm not a real audiophile, so I wonder how much I would notice. Already almost almost my songs originated from CD and they all sound fine to me.
It sort of seems unfair for Apple to not allow a simple upgrade of those 104 songs. Particularly since the prices they are currently selling those songs at seem to be the same. But it's Apple, so what can you do.
Anyway, I was just wondering what the best way of proceeding might be and welcome opinions.
Thanks!
doug

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