If you buy crap because of advertising etc (I'm inferring that this is something that you're worried about) then you're a mug who doesn't deserve a benevolent corporation-smashing dictator to look out for you in the first place. The only things I buy are cheap cds and food, and I only buy the rampantly unfashionable cds I do because I have money burning a hole in my pocket and live in hope.
As for feeling crap, I generally feel good, as long as I'm either playing quiz machines or talking to friends. And I don't think either are a hot topic modern malaise-wise.