In the best sense of the word, the Minutemen were conservative, a time-honored concept in American thought going back at least to Thoreau. “Econo is an old concept,” Watt agrees. “The punk rockers picked up on that, the idea of scarcity and just using what you got. And maybe more of you comes through because there’s less outside stuff you’re sticking on—all you got is you, so you have to make something out of it.”
