As the average price of a concert ticket approaches the gross domestic product of Belize, the Goo Goo Dolls had a radical idea charge less.

On the road with a new album, “Gutterflower,” the Buffalo, N.Y.-born trio didn’t want tickets to cost so much that fans couldn’t afford to come see the show.

“I was looking at the ticket prices for some of this stuff, and I was like, you’ve got to be kidding me,” singer John Rzeznik says by phone from a tour stop in Milwaukee.

“I think we put a good bill together, and we kept the ticket price down. We had to take some corporate sponsorship to do it, but that’s fine. We were able to afford to put on a big huge rock show for $30 or $35.”

Lately, life on the road is Rzeznik’s favorite part of being a musician. His band has been touring since late spring, and the musicians plan to head to Australia and Mexico after finishing their U.S. tour.

“Live, it’s been amazing,” he says. “The record exploded out of the box, and now it’s kind of hit a low point. And between listening to millions of excuses from people at the record company and blaming myself … I’ve decided there are things in life you just can’t control.”

One of the reasons sales of “Gutterflower” have hit a lull is Internet file sharing, Rzeznik says.

“They had 800,000 downloads of it, and I can tell you I’ve only sold a little over 500,000 records. I’m just really grateful that we still draw live,” Rzeznik says. “I’m all for taking corporate America apart piece by piece, but we’re sort of cogs in that machine. I don’t think these kids realize that they’re screwing the bands over, and we’re the last ones to get paid in the first place.”

Still, the singer doesn’t blame fans. The real problem, he says, is that record companies didn’t act fast enough to address file sharing in a way that benefits the fans, the musicians and the labels.