Modest Mouse and Lines of Demarcation

Modest Mouse, how did this band become famous? How did they slip past the radar?
It used to be cool the listen to Modest Mouse, I don't know, maybe it still is, but really this band is bad. I can't say that i'm totally exempt from listening to them or even saying, "man this band is totally awesome," but after trying for a few years to like them i've decided tonight, after a standard and exhaustingly taxing Modest Mouse song came on shuffle, that not only should I not like them but you shouldn't either.
So, again, how did this band become famous? I'm not talking about the process of a band becoming famous. Smart ass. I'm talking about how this band in particular was chosen by whoever or whatever makes the decisions that result in a band's popularity. After foolishly forcing their new album down my throat, once again attempting to swallow this band, first by itself, then, wrapping it in bread, cheese, yogurt, i've failed to be convinced. Now the new album is on my computer, my mp3 player, taking up space, ruining things, and I'm trying to figure out now how it is that they have come to be considered a "good band," or at least, "an edgy, unique band."
It's clear why I listened to Modest Mouse for so long: I'm a tool. I need to listen to the same shit that my friends do, just like everyone else. Well, not everyone else, some people need to find music and supply people with music, but some people, social listeners, listen to music that there friends listen to (sometimes at their own expense). I'm one of these social listeners, so I find songs like, "paper thin walls" and listen to them over and over and hope that the rest of the songs on the album begin to grow on me. Unfortunately, they never do with this band. The lyrics are the worst kind of popular tripe, and the music itself is offensive. It seems dynamic at first glance but it isn't. It's loud, and not rock and roll loud. The singer can't sing, and for that part i'm sure the guitarist can't guitar and the drummer can't drum.
Surely, though, there are a whole handfuls of people who listen to Modest Mouse because they are convince that this is a good band. Unfortunately, the case for the enjoyment of Modest Mouse is rock solid. What I mean by this is that any one fan can simply say, "fuck you Trey. Modest Mouse is good. They can sing, guitar, drum. They are musicians, and they are beautiful." This is how these people sound. I know them, and they are assholes. What I'm suggesting about this band is that they are a malapropism. They are a phenomenon that has been categorized on the wrong side of the demarcation line. This is not the bands fault. The band itself just keeps doing what it does best, instead this is the fault of a generation, who overzealously attempts to find the next progressive, edgy, unique band.
So music begins to travel in certain directions and people start to listen to music in different ways and new bands come out and try to fit a certain niche. Then that song "Float On" comes on billboard rock charts and hits number one and Modest Mouse is a fucking sensation. Of course, then, all their original fans start lashing out, saying, "those fuckers have sold out. Their old stuff is way better anyway. I wish the music industry would stop fucking everything up, etc." the whole time feeling justified to bash the band that they like/used to like because they were on board first. This is how these people sound. I know them, and their assholes. So Modest Mouse is big and huge and people all around the world really like them, but suddenly they're not so edgy, unique. Maybe they still are. But, whatever they might be, they were all over the radio for a while and popular. They had the number one song in America. So either MTV, and mainstream radio, and VH1, and whatever else is really zeroed in on the unique, edgy American music or they're into popular shit. Maybe popular shit isn't exclusively not edgy, not unique, but i don't think that's right.
To get back to what I was saying earlier when I was bashing my generation, I meant that thinking that Modest Mouse is innovative is all their fault. Modest Mouse has always been a popular band that until 2004 simply hadn't been discovered. The problem is that my friends are fooled. They believe that Modest Mouse was this Mary, this unspoiled matriarch that was born in 1996 and unfortunately folded to the riches and glamor of a corrupt and money hungry music industry. "They've sold out and fucking ruined their sound," they would say, these Modest Mouse fans. But I'm telling you, if Modest Mouse was the least bit innovative, they wouldn't suck now. Sure, their new record sold a few copies, costing still on the popularity of their 2004 success, but if they were a good band they would continue to succeed. They're not, and they don't.
Finally, I'm simply asking all of my friends who like Modest Mouse to just stop being douche bags. Concede. Tell me that i'm right and you've been wrong all along, and agree to stop lumping bands from the popular/one-hit-wonder category into the innovative/unique/good category. I'm sure Staind and whoever made music before they were smeared all over the radio.