Retrieving Already Purchased Songs

My hard drive recently crashed and I lost a lof of purchased music from the itunes store. My account confirms that I have purchased these albums, but yet I can't have them again unless I buy them again. That's a lot of money. What do i do?

I have a question...i had an e-mail account with netscape that was my apple id but somehow the email was terminated and the id was no longer reconized. I bought a ton of music with that account and when i got my new laptop i couldnt authorize this computer to play the music i had on my home computer. Only my home computer can play music from the old account and i want that music transfered to my active account. Can someone help.

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    kennedylivin24 wrote:
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