Punk’s raw, do-it-yourself ethic does lend itself it to the chaotic, take-my-old-shit-for-a-buck attitude of flea markets. But what exactly makes a " flea market " punk? Well, according to Ben Sisto, the 22-year-old organizer of this Sunday’s Punk Rock Flea Market, three things.

Lack of funds. " I’m not looking to make cash, really. And from the looks of the budget " — which the Mission Hill denizen says is about $40 — " I won’t. "

A DJ who prefers Richard Hell to Sum 41. " We’ll have someone spinning the whole time, " explains Sisto, who earned his street cred booking bands like Fugazi and Hot Water Music at MassArt, " who’ll play things in the vein of Minor Threat, Television, old Boston hardcore, and maybe a little soul. "

Independent vendors. There’ll be 35 to 40 indie merchants, tables of records for sale, plus booths from Sensitive Clothing, Queer Positive, and Matt Albanese’s Evil Design, famed for its devil-horn drawings and enormous-eyed metal kids. Nonprofit secondhand store Planet Aid, where Sisto works, will be peddling discounted overstock ( " perfect for fabric or alterations " ). Even Sisto’s mom will be in the house, behind a stand of vegan baked goods.

Sisto, who now does production jobs under the name HoneyPump, ( " Sounds sexy, don’t it? " he writes in an e-mail), hopes that a simple thing like a punk flea market will help unite, and in turn ignite, the local underground scene. " My ultimate goal is to have all local independent record stores and indie retailers under one roof, so that people will walk in and say, ‘Wow, this is the local community. Cool stuff is actually happening in Boston.’ " And, he points out, that approach is true to the DIY principle. " This is what [the] punk, indie [community] should be about: taking things that are normally mainstream events and tailoring them to the subgroups and genres that get left out. I don’t mean to sound overly dramatic, but it’s really important — especially in a city like Boston where arts and DIY are crap — to have events like this. "

The Punk Rock Flea Market will take place on Sunday, December 15, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Massachusetts College of Art’s Gymnasium, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston. Admission is free. E-mail hpflea@hotmail.com