iPod Classic sync

[daveathall]

Sorry if I am having a senior moment here fellas.

I have a nearly full of music iPod classic. I deleted all my music from my MBP when I transferred it all to the iCloud. I have since purchased a couple more albums from iTunes and wish to put them on my iPod before deleting them and saving them in the iCloud.

When I plug my iPod in to my MBP to sync, I get a message that iTunes has found purchases on my iPod, do I want to transfer them to iTunes, if I don't they will be deleted from my iPod.

I obviously dont want to transfer nearly 140GB worth back to my iTunes just so that I can transfer a couple of albums back to my iPod and then delete all the albums from iTunes.

Is there any way around this please?