I am hoping to pay for goods and services directly in crypto, and anonymously.
Well, it depends on the type of services and products you want to buy, but that's also a tricky path. Merchants accepting crypto directly might still be required to collect your information to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. Especially for higher-value transactions. True anonymity is very difficult to achieve in the regulated world.
Even if it is not a matter of AML regulation, if he buys physical goods at some point he will have to provide personal information, because how will he get the product he bought.
Also, if he buys licenses as a digital good, they often have to read the original name for the license to be valid, which again requires confirmation of identity and removal of anonymity.
Very few services and goods are completely immune to the need to know the customer's identity.