Record Store Day Problems, Acid Bath Memories & Why Concert Tickets Have Gone Too Far

READ MORE: https://www.thesonicroad.com/p/best-albums-of-2026-so-far-plus-why-the-music-business-needs-to-change Host Beau and returning guest Becky Franzel — Milwaukee author and lifelong rock fan — cover a lot of ground in this highlight reel from Episode 32 of The Sonic Road Podcast. They start with Record Store Day — the concept is great, supporting independent stores matters, but the economics have gotten complicated. Stores have to buy all the stock upfront with no ability to return unsold copies, and the prices on the floor have gotten out of hand. A single album in a regular sleeve going for $65? That's a hard pass. From there the conversation moves through: The Black Crowes recording A Pound of Feathers in just eight days, memories of seeing Acid Bath play small clubs in the nineties and hanging with Dax before anyone knew who they were, the idea of sequencing an album as one 45-minute song so nobody can skip it, the pop music debate and why Britney Spears' "Toxic" is genuinely a great song, Fred Durst and the strange chapter in rock history that was the late nineties/early 2000s, why Brazil has one of the most passionate Limp Bizkit fanbases on earth,