Im assuming your talking about the 2nd paragraph? I see what your saying but it still doesnt change the fact that if you didnt have any of those 'cheap thrills' you wouldnt be as happy as you are now, with them, would you? You might, but only because you'd find some other way to spend your time which would most likely cost money at some point.
That's not true I would much rather listen to music, or just sit and discuss than do anything that costs any real money, it has the potential to but it still doesn't, I find myself finding more and more ways to entertain myself without money. Some could argue that music costs money, it really doesn't, due to less than legal methods of obtaining it and just because you have possessions that cost money doesn't mean your happy with them. Just because your not bored doesn't mean you're happy. I owned an xbox360 and a nintendo wii although I was entertained I was ultimately unhappy. Entertainment is cheap, happiness isn't something that I would say can be bought easily, let alone at all. Happiness is that feeling you get of being completely content, stimulated, and satisfied, not necessarily entertained.
No other way to spend my time? I digress that when I get to doing things I find myself without enough of time, hell even time itself is a concept invented by man so they can schedule more shit into their day, or do certain things at certain times. When you get entertained for a brief while and then find yourself bored of the perpetual series of events that unfold before you while tinkering with your material objects, wouldn't you agree that the boredom massively outweighs the the amount of entertainment and alleged fun you where having? It's like lust and love although they're often confused, they aren't the same.
I regress that these cheap entertainments are likely just people confusing the entertainment of draining hours as happiness.