Consumerism and Pop Culture- when does it end?

When looking at the blog topics for this class there is an endless sea of products that can be tagged along to any one of them. DVDs, apparel, food items, toys the list can literally go on and on. This issue is one of great complexity when thinking about how the average person buys into these marketing strategies. Think about going grocery shopping with an adult when you are younger- that is how I look at this predicament (which I guess doesn't say much for the average consumer) When you like some aspect of pop culture people get drawn into consuming memorabilia/ products that it relates to.

American Idol Products:

http://www.orientaltrading.com/application?origin=page.jsp&namespace=search&event=button.search&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&Ntt=American%20Idol&N=0&Ntk=all

http://www.slashfood.com/2007/01/18/american-idol-ice-creams/

Family Guy

http://www.thefamilyguystore.com/

http://www.target.com/gp/browse.html/602-9073684-4792663?node=15960491&AFID=google&LNM=family_guy_products&LID=4536891&ref=tgt_adv_XSGT0555