downloaded itunes to a second laptop and upon trying to play a tune, msg "cannot locate file" additioinally, it will play only recently purchased songs and nothing to that downloaded years ago

i did not transfer them from anywhere i simply had itunes on one computer and wanted it on another computer so i could choose whichever computer i wanted on vacation i simply went online and downloaded itunes to the second computer i didnt misplace them i didnt transfer them incorrectly i did nothing my nephew tells me that i will have to subscribe to itunes match to gain access to them call me crazy but i something fundamentally wrong with having to pay someone to gain access to the tunes i added to my library from my cd collection my solution is to delete the malfunctioning itunes from the second computer and use the one on the older computer that is not experiencing this issue and just avoid newer versions of itunes that might force me to have to hand over more money to apple