iTunes

Typical isn't it? After starting to blog my G5 has gone haywire and refuses to boot up. So I'm back to my old iMac. State of art in 2001 and now obsolete unto the third generation. Problem is when your hard disc goes so does all the iTunes you've purchased over the past 2 years. All that crazy music you won't find anywhere else. Do I have back-ups? I have now. The G5 went soon after Xmas and was sucessfully repaired and I purchased an external 1 Terrbyte hard disc. But before I could download a new set of iTunes  it has crashed again. I have contacted iTunes to explain the situation but basically they say that I have to pay for all the tunes I had purchased again. To the tune of £500 if I tot it up. Restoration of my old hard disc starts around £270. Seems I'm caught in a Devil's bargain.