Just when it seemed that "Flagpole Sitta," an enticing chunk of thinking man's pop from the Seattle outfit Harvey Danger, couldn't reach a wider audience, the song started popping up in theaters.

The band's modern rock radio hit ["Flagpole Sitta", 800k QuickTime] turns up in the theatrical trailers and television spots for the soon-to-be released teen creep-out, "Disturbing Behavior," which stars "Dawson's Creek's" Katie Holmes.

No, the band is not made up of compulsive "Dawson's Creek" watchers, rather the band says that its decision to pony up the song, which also appears in the film itself, was purely a business one.

They asked, and after embarrassingly minimal debate, we said yes," frontman Sean Nelson told MTV News of the ad campaign.

We really love the film, which we haven't seen.

Preparing themselves for any possible charges of "selling out," the band members have their own reasons

for handing over the song.

I think the reason that it was O.K. to do that was -- not to rationalize any of that away -- is that, [article id="1445470"]good god, if you haven't heard 'Flagpole Sitta' yet, you know,"[/article] Nelson said. [article id="1445470"]"I mean, it's been exposed to the mainest of mainstream audiences. [600k QuickTime][/article] I don't think that it's going to suffer from being exposed a little more, you know.

That commercial is not where that song was compromised," bassist Aaron Huffman added.

Right," Nelson said. "That happened years ago.

The band wraps up a tour with Semisonic on Saturday, and if you listen closely, you can hear them when "Disturbing Behavior" opens on July 24. The band will not be featured on the film's soundtrack, but you can satisfy your "Flagpole Sitta" jones with the band's album "Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?