We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank sold 133,000 copies, topping Joss Stone and some American Idol nonsense. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around the fact that Modest Mouse is as big as it is. With The Shins, The Arcade Fire, and Modest Mouse all selling well, the Top 200 album chart is slowly kind of maybe starting to suck less. Well, no, not really. But this is a good start.