1998 was my first year of college, and the first year i'd ever been exposed to hip hop as a conscientious music lover.
i bought things fall apart in my first wave of cd buying (along with lauryn, tribe's love movement, jay-z vol. 2, outkast aquemini)...before that "wave" i didn't own any cds at all. just tapes...lol...

anyways, to make a short answer long, yes, after tfa and seeing y'all live at my school, i went back and bought every album twice. once for me, once for my older sis.