I never said Animal Collective sold 100's of thousands of records. I said they were LISTENED TO by 100's of thousands.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/obscurity
Obscurity - The quality or condition of being unknown.
Yeah, it is more synonymous with "little known" or "virtually unknown"; I didn't mean "completely unknown. period" because if it was THAT obscure to begin with, we wouldn't even be talking about it. I guess I'm willing to accept that there are different levels of oscurity.
Point is, kinda what batreleaser said a few pages ago, if you have records in every record store in America and you've been on television in front of millions of people, you're not obscure. I really would like to reiterate a point from earlier: Animal Collective are a CULT band... but not obscure.