That really sucks man. Was the computer not same one the iPhone was last synced to? iTunes only let's you be tethered to one computer at a time. And if you switch computers the media gets deleted. I THINK you can transfer apps to a new computer as long as you login with your iTunes account. That being said, you should have been warned so hopefully it's another issue?
This is one of the drawbacks of your phone OEM also being the biggest distributor of digital media... no dought the record labels had some concessions for Apple in the carriage agreement. I hope you at least have the disks so you can rerip them.
Sorry off topic but what do competitors to iOS use to get digital media if not iTunes? I mean besides file sharing. Which I'm sure our 'DROID friends would never do
. I know there is Walmart.com and Amazon.com and you can always actually got out and
buy a CD but is there an integrated service?