Christmas is right around the corner. That means spending time fighting holiday crowds as you shop for gifts for your loved ones. Of course, come December 26 your so-called friends and relatives will turn right around and take them back to the stores and exchange them for something they really want. That’s the Holiday Spirit.

And if you’re like most people, you’re probably saying to yourself, “Self! There must be a better way! There must be a way to buy presents that my loved ones will appreciate. Gifts that they’ll cherish forever. Gifts that they’ll never return. That would be the perfect Christmas!”

That’s where we come in. Presenting Christmas shopping the Pollstar.com way!

First of all, forget about your aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and all those other jerks who you must associate with if only because there may come a time when you might need to ask them for a spare kidney. Instead, focus all of your gift-giving spirit on the people that really matter – the 1,421 men and women who spend each waking moment researching, typing and posting dates on this Web site. They’re your real loved ones, not someone who’s going to be standing out in the cold waiting for the stores to open on December 26.

After all, did your aunt post the new dates for Duran Duran? Did your brother update the schedules for the Eagles and Good Charlotte? Heck no. Nor did they enter your favorite dates for Motley Crue, Montgomery Gentry or Ashlee Simpson. In fact, when you get right down to it, when it comes to tour dates, your alleged friends and relatives didn’t do squat.

But we did! And that’s why there should be only one entry on your Christmas list, spelled P-O-L-L-S-T-A-R DOT C-O-M!

What’s more, when you make Pollstar.com the only recipient worthy of your best holiday wishes, you needn’t bother with long lines at Sears, hunting for parking spaces at Target or fighting with the riff-raff at Wal-Mart. That’s because our carved-in-stone gift receiving policy specifically prohibits anyone from sending us anything except cold, hard cash.

So dig into that wallet! Whether it’s a fiver, a sawbuck a c-note or something that passes for small change in Canada, all valid currencies, are welcome at Pollstar.com. Furthermore, there’s nothing that beats that warm holiday feeling one feels deep within one’s heart on Christmas morning knowing that a data operator at Pollstar.com is tallying up the loot received from loyal concert fans like yourself. That’s the true meaning of Christmas.

Let’s review. Crowds, long lines and rude store clerks are bad. Money inserted into a plain white envelope and sent to our home base in Fresno, California, is good. This season gift someone who will appreciate your efforts by sending some cash to the folks responsible for keeping you up to date on the touring endeavors of Asleep At The Wheel, Gretchen Wilson and Taste Of Chaos. Mail that Christmas cash to Pollstar.com today!

Oh, and you still might want to send a few Christmas cards to your closest relatives. After all, you never know when you might need a new kidney.