Here's the problem - the costs are not super low.

For example just accessing the original multitrack tapes involves huge costs. Noel or Liam can't just wander into the place where they're stored and lift them off the shelf.

Firstly they'd have to find out where those multitrack master and outtake tapes are stored. That means putting an official request in with whoever has arranged storage of the tapes (usually the record label). Even when their location is tracked down, the label is not going to just release them to anybody who asks. The record label will want to know who wants them and why, and will need legal paperwork drawn up to make sure the people asking for access are legally allowed to. Noel and Liam's legal people will need to start talking to the record label's legal people. That costs money and so far nobody has even sighted the tape boxes, let alone blown the dust off them.

Then if the tape storage has been outsourced to a private storage facility, that facility may charge a fee to physically send one of their staff down into the vaults to retrieve the tapes.

Then the tapes have to be transferred to digital - that means paying for audio engineers and a studio. To be fair, the latter Oasis albums may have always had digital masters rather than tape masters which may make things easier.

If they want to include studio outtakes as well as just remastering the original album, somebody has to sit through all of those outtakes and make note of anything interesting they think might be worth including.

Every time Noel makes a decision about the project it probably has to be approved by Liam - and vice versa. That's probably not a regular chat between both of them down the local pub over a pint every Friday night - it's probably all done through lawyers who are charging by the minute.

Even once all the tracks are chosen and mixed and remastered there's legal costs associated with songwriting royalties and recording royalties.

Then even if the tracklisting and artwork is all approved of and signed off, there's costs associated with marketing and packaging and distribution.

I don't think those first three recent Oasis reissues made big money. If they did they would have continued long before now. I don't even think they accessed any of the original multitrack session tapes (they may not even still exist) but just the album masters. All the outtakes seem to have been lifted from cassette tapes or CDRs.

See I knew there was a reason it had to be difficult! Crazy though makes me appreciative that other bands have done it. I just feel like oasis deserves a career spanning box set with all the B sides and rarities.

You don’t think the interest is there? Really?

The solution isn’t a best of with a single disk tacked on that simply can’t be representative of the work from that time.

It requires the will to do it, and that means Noel sitting down and going through it. He hasn’t got time at the moment because he’s busy doing other things, hopefully at some point he will.

Yeah absolutely. I think a three or four disk set ( yes I know they’re basically obsolete, just trying illustrate size of project) covering the years 91’-99’ and then another covering 00’ - 09’ would be perfect.

Yeah, this.  This is the kind of thing people get around to when they're older and not touring and recording as much and have the time (and maybe more importantly the inclination) to sit about noodling around and making it right.  There's certainly a market for it, but also no particular reason to do it now, especially while other stuff is currently happening-- the Knebworth movie and release will push the Oasis brand to a wider audience for quite some time.