Anyway....NIN always sucked. It's just been so long since his last album that you aren't in high school anymore.
I wholeheartedly disagree. It's probably just like anything else though: You just have to be in the right time at the right place. It's not so much the lyrics in particular (by themselves they suck, frankly), but the entire meticulous composition of each track that makes up the the entire complex album. Each album has a "story", similar to a movie ("The Wall"?) and I enjoy seeing how they all fit together.
I like "unique" music, and I think NiN is unique in that it's hard to listen to just one track of an album because in order to really get into the song and understand what's happening, you have to listen to the entire album. So if you're saying they "suck" because you've only listened to the songs on the radio, I challenge you to spend some time and listen to an entire album (Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, The Fragile - Left). Not just the lyrics, but the entire composition of each song and the album as a whole.
Sure, at this point, it's probably too "teenage-agnst", but indulge yourself for a bit and try and remember what it was like back then as you listen to it.
*shrug* Those are my thoughts on Nine Inch Nails and why I've been following him/them for so long.
-sab