Got $5? Spend it on the Walkmen’s new album, You & Me.

By JASON HARPER

In an age when bands are giving albums away, letting buyers name their own price, selling them exclusively at Wal-Mart, selling them for $0.49 at Amazon, driving by your house and throwing them at your dad as he waters the lawn in pale khaki shorts and black socks, and so forth, hats off to the Walkmen. Hats friggin’ off to the Walkmen. This New York band is giving away all the proceeds from sales of its new album, You & Me, out yesterday, to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Buy the album digitally for $5 at Amie Street. It will be sold this way for three weeks, then it’ll come out on vinyl and stuff, and the Walkmen might eventually start to make a little profit. But it’s always been clear that the Walkmen aren’t in this for the money.