I can't re-download a song with iTunes on my PC or iPhone I bought an album yesterday from iTunes on my PC, downloaded it, and synced it with my iPhone.  When I later tried to play the songs on the phone, I noticed that they wouldn't play at all.  I also noticed that they wouldn't play on the PC.  So, I tried to follow the suggestion in this other question and deleted the songs, thinking I could just re-download them.  I can't seem to actually re-download these.


I locate the album in the iTunes store from iTunes on my PC.
I click "buy" for the album.
I see a pop-up box from iTunes telling me I have already purchased this item and can redownload it from my Purchases.  
I click the "Purchased" button on the pop-up dialog.
iTunes takes me to "Purchased" screen, but I do not see the artist or any of the songs from that artist in my purchased music list.


Also, when I try to download it from iTunes directly from my iPhone, the album shows up with a "purchased" box next to it already and is unclickable.

I am using iTunes 11 on my PC and have iOS 6.0.1 on the iPhone.

How can I get this music?
I had this exact same problem and I tried the same solution you did: deleted the file and could not redownload. It just said "Purchased" and there was no option to redownload. It turns out that I must have selected to "hide" the purchase. I fixed this by going to my account settings in itunes and clicking "view hidden purchases". Low and behold, my missing file was there. I clicked the "unhide" button and was able to download it again from the itunes store.