The Price of Progression is an album by the Columbus, Ohio, rock band the Toll, released in 1988.

[3] It was produced by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero.

[4] The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: "So unremittingly annoying, so ostentatiously pretentious, so utterly lacking in anything approaching a sense of humor, this album exerts a certain fascination.

"[5] The Washington Post called the album "heavy-handed, uneven, feverishly melodramatic and occasionally overwrought.

"[6] All songs written by Brad Circone/Rick Silk/Brett Mayo/Greg Bartram