What's with all these bands leaving out 'the' in their name?

Don't you hate it when a trend gets going and everyone silently hops on board and starts relating whatever the idea is to you like it was their own, when they obviously just lifted it from someone else, who stole it from someone else, etc. until everyone is running around doing/saying the same thing, until someone calls them on it and then they feel like unoriginal ass-clowns? It's like that with bands right now, who name themselves a plural noun, but intentionally leave out the 'the' (the same thing happened 10 years ago, but back then everyone intentionally left in the 'the'). Problem is, it's stupid and a pointless decision. I'm gonna mint a new rule about bands: if you're the genuine article, leave in the definite article. If you're a fucking poser, go ahead and be ____s. It's different, and hey, everyone is doing it. Ironically, the first time I remember seeing a name like this was that awful Chapel Hill band Cities who were around for 6 long months and actually released a record on Yep Roc back in 05-06. I remember how awkward their name sounded then. And now - shit - look what we got on the roll-call: Emeralds, Girls, Mountains, Lights, Lanterns, Savoirs, Crocodiles, Grooms, Laarks, Ahleuchatistas (double shitty for leaving out 'the' in a foreign language), Brakes, Maps, Soulsavers, Espers, Headlights, Islands, Pens, Nurses, Ganglians, Woods, Noisettes, Eulogies, Clues... this is just a partial list from Pitchfork's reviews just from 2009! Oh, and I'm not counting bands with compound-word names like Turbo Fruits, Best Coast, and Fruit Bats - those are still wrong, they just don't seem as annoying as the short, single word ones. I wonder if 'Douches' exist yet. If not, Drew I got a new name for your project! (j/k man, I can't quit you. you know that)

Seriously, when was the first time you can recall a band with this type of name? Before 5 years ago, I can only think of two exceptions: Melvins and Eels. I think it might've been a mini-trend among psychedelic/krautrock bands in the early 70s too, but who gives a shit about that really, that's definitely not where these kids today are drawing inspiration from. If you happen to meet someone in a band with a dumpy plural noun name, tell them you're going to copy all of their music illegally to your hard drive, just like they copied their band name from someone else. Enforce creativity now before the world gets any duller!